function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

[Peter TB Brett]

On 12/10/2015 15:24, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> I made a test between the "sort" method and the "repeat for each". For a list of about 100,000 items, sort finds the max value in 33 ticks, and "repeat" takes 50 ticks.
>
> This seems logical to me, since lower level operations are used in "sort" as opposed to "repeat" even though we all know how fast "repeat for each" is.
>

That's really surprising!  Could you please share your test stack so I 
can have a play?

                                Peter

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