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

[Mike Doub]

Pass by reference and you can eliminate a memcopy on the initial function call.

-= Mike 



On Oct 12, 2015, 9:11 PM, at 9:11 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>Not quite as concise, but this function is about 3x faster:
>
>function greatestLessThan pList,V
>   put empty into R
>   repeat for each item i in pList
>      if i < V and i > R then put i into R
>   end repeat
>   return R
>end greatestLessThan
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