with R2.15.1 built from source on
Solaris
Is this a SPARC system? On at least some SPARC systems, the "long
double"
type in C is implemented very slowly in software, and it seems that it
is used for the sums done when calculating standard deviations with
"sd".
Radford Neal
I have a question about building R (2.15.1) from source on a Solaris 10
64bit virtual server with 2 cores and 16GB memory that is running on an
Oracle T4 server. Based on several tests I have done this configuration
has been several orders of magnitude slower than any other configuration
I've test