Fast Prime Number Generation in Clojure

Question

I\'ve been working on solving Project Euler problems in Clojure to get better, and I\'ve already run into prime number generation a couple of times. My problem is that it is

Answer 1

Based on Will's comment, here is my take on postponed-primes:

(defn postponed-primes-recursive
  ([]
     (concat (list 2 3 5 7)
             (lazy-seq (postponed-primes-recursive
                        {}
                        3
                        9
                        (rest (rest (postponed-primes-recursive)))
                        9))))
  ([D p q ps c]
     (letfn [(add-composites
               [D x s]
               (loop [a x]
                 (if (contains? D a)
                   (recur (+ a s))
                   (persistent! (assoc! (transient D) a s)))))]
       (loop [D D
              p p
              q q
              ps ps
              c c]
         (if (not (contains? D c))
           (if (< c q)
             (cons c (lazy-seq (postponed-primes-recursive D p q ps (+ 2 c))))
             (recur (add-composites D
                                    (+ c (* 2 p))
                                    (* 2 p))
                    (first ps)
                    (* (first ps) (first ps))
                    (rest ps)
                    (+ c 2)))
           (let [s (get D c)]
             (recur (add-composites
                     (persistent! (dissoc! (transient D) c))
                     (+ c s)
                     s)
                    p
                    q
                    ps
                    (+ c 2))))))))

Initial submission for comparison:

Here is my attempt to port this prime number generator from Python to Clojure. The below returns an infinite lazy sequence.

(defn primes
  []
  (letfn [(prime-help
            [foo bar]
            (loop [D foo
                   q bar]
              (if (nil? (get D q))
                (cons q (lazy-seq
                         (prime-help
                          (persistent! (assoc! (transient D) (* q q) (list q)))
                          (inc q))))
                (let [factors-of-q (get D q)
                      key-val (interleave
                               (map #(+ % q) factors-of-q)
                               (map #(cons % (get D (+ % q) (list)))
                                    factors-of-q))]
                  (recur (persistent!
                          (dissoc!
                           (apply assoc! (transient D) key-val)
                           q))
                         (inc q))))))]
    (prime-help {} 2)))

Usage:

user=> (first (primes))
2
user=> (second (primes))
3
user=> (nth (primes) 100)
547
user=> (take 5 (primes))
(2 3 5 7 11)
user=> (time (nth (primes) 10000))
"Elapsed time: 409.052221 msecs"
104743

edit:

Performance comparison, where postponed-primes uses a queue of primes seen so far rather than a recursive call to postponed-primes:

user=> (def counts (list 200000 400000 600000 800000))
#'user/counts
user=> (map #(time (nth (postponed-primes) %)) counts)
("Elapsed time: 1822.882 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 3985.299 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 6916.98 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 8710.791 msecs"
2750161 5800139 8960467 12195263)
user=> (map #(time (nth (postponed-primes-recursive) %)) counts)
("Elapsed time: 1776.843 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 3874.125 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 6092.79 msecs"
 "Elapsed time: 8453.017 msecs"
2750161 5800139 8960467 12195263)