Please do the comparison with R-devel. That has a different policy,
including switching to quicksort when partial has more than 10 elements.
BTW you need to compare with quicksort (which suffices here and is quite a
lot faster than shellsort for large numeric vectors).
For 1 million+1 I am gett
Motivated by Deepayan's recent inquiries about the efficiency of the
R 'quantile'
function:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/05/11/3305.html
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/06/03/4358.html
I decided to try to revive an old project to implement a version of
the
Here is a summary of some results on a dual Opteron 252 running FC3
64-bit gcc 3.4.5
R's blas34.83 3.45 38.56
ATLAS 36.70 3.28 40.14
ATLAS multithread 76.85 5.39 82.29
Goto 1 thread 36.17 3.44 39.76
Goto multithread 178.06 345.97 467.99
A
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Dear R-devel,
>
> [I'm not sure if this is appropriate for R-devel. If not, I'm more than
> happy to move it to R-help.]
It is certainly not appropriate to R-help: see the posting guide.
> As those of you who saw my post on R-help know, I've been trying
