Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>
> It might be interesting to know get some details on your hardware.
>
It's a P4 2.66GHz with a standard Intel motherboard having 1GB RAM.
> On my box, linux native seems to be a little slower than
> your quick.serialize times:
>
> > system.time( serialize(matrix(0, 100
Hello,
R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
i386-pc-mingw32
Calling serialize() with a NULL connection serializes it to a raw vector.
However, when the object to be serialized is large, it takes a very long time:
> system.time( serialize(matrix(0, 1000, 1000), NULL) )
[1] 38.25 40.73 81.54NANA
