Hi Louis, I apologize in advance if this isn't the right forum; feel free to direct me elsewhere.
Can you say a bit more about what exactly constitute the advantages of TERR over R as most readers of this list know it? Some random points of interest to me: 1. Do you have concrete benchmarks of what sorts of operations are faster? In particular, are you, like Revolution, licensing MKL? 2. Your white-paper boasts of superior memory management; can you give more details? Are we now reference counting, or abandoning copy-on-write to play better with fork(), or running concurrently? In turn, does this mean the C-API is not kept as is and any package with compiled code isn't usable? 3. You speak of being more robust: is this at a language level (i.e.,something simpler to use than try()/tryCatch()) or an implementation level? If the latter, what non-robustnesses are being addressed? 4. What are y'all's plans for supporting TERR as 'regular R' evolves? Will it track or will things diverge over time? 5. Known (and not intended to change) differences? 6. Is the whole R-level API exposed or only a selected subset? I'm thinking in particular of (1) things like .colMeans() which seem rather tied to the implementation; (2) graphics devices; (3) the promise mechanism and copy-on-write semantics? Cheers, Michael On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Louis Bajuk-Yorgan <lba...@tibco.com> wrote: > In honor of the kickoff of useR 2013 today, I'm proud to announce the > availability of TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (or TERR for short), our new > enterprise-grade, high-performance statistical engine, fully compatible with > the R language. > > For more information on TERR, and a link to download the free Developer's > Edition via the TERR Community site, check out > http://spotfire.tibco.com/terr--or come to my talk at useR on Thursday > morning. > > As part of our development of TERR, we have also contributed new packages to > CRAN: sjdbc (a JDBC driver interface, previously developed for S-PLUS) and > tibbrConnector (an R interface to tibbr, TIBCO's Social Network for the > Enterprise). > > ---------------------------------- > Lou Bajuk-Yorgan > @loubajuk > TIBCO Spotfire > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
