Optimize the Utils.stdDev function
This patch optimizes the stdDev function in two respects: - first, we don't do sum . map which builds an intermediate list, but instead use a fold over the list to build incrementally the sum; this should reduce both the time and space characteristics, as we have fewer objects created - second, we move from “a ^ 2” to “a * a” as the latter has a much simpler implementation and thus a higher performance Since the ‘square’ function is obsoleted by the above the patch also removes it.
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