Alternatively, if you actually wanted to keep the 0.95 you could use
usage > R_CStackLimit - (R_CStackLimit >> 4)
and probably get close enough to 0.95 as it makes no difference or go
with 5 and get something more like 97%. At any rate, you'd avoid
floating point.
On 8/29/07, Stephen Milborrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings R developers,
>
> R will run a little faster when executing "pure R" code if the function
> R_CheckStack() is modified.
>
> With the modification, the following code for example runs 15% faster
> (compared to a virgin R-2.5.1 on my Windows XP machine):
>
> N = 1e7
> foo <- function(x)
> {
> for (i in 1:N)
> x <- x + 1
> x
> }
> foo(0)
>
> The crux of the modification is to change the following line in
> R_CheckStack()
>
> if(R_CStackLimit != -1 && usage > 0.95 * R_CStackLimit) {...
>
> to
>
> if(usage > R_CStackLen) { ...
>
> Details and modified sources can be found at
> ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/milbo.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
>
> http://milbo.users.sonic.net
>
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