Re: R performance

2020-05-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:02 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > . So the question has become academic but I would like to get some > sort of explanation so I can adjust for the future. > It used to be the case that AMD caches performed vastly differently than Intel. That will especially be so as you stride

Re: R performance

2020-05-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:02:20AM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > EC2 used to offer Debian but they don't any more. Debian AMIs do exist on EC2, you just have to search them: https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Buster Reco

Re: R performance

2020-05-13 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:06:52PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > You don't mention which distro you are running on the EC2 instance, nor > whether R or the C libraries differ in release levels. Moreover, that EC2 > instance type is AMD-based not Intel. So if not an apples-to-oranges > compar

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, May 12, 2020, 10:55 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > > Hello > > > > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using > all the > > available cores instead of j

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 9:55 AM: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: >>> Hello >>> >> >> I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the >> available cores instead of just one. I don't know wh

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > Hello > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the > available cores instead of just one. I don't know whether that's a debian > change or an R chang

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > Hello > > I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R > language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) > and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering > if the R packages on Debian ha