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

[Geoff Canyon]

Sure, that's always an option for large data calls to functions.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Mike Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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