This is a known issue that is being looked into. The primary culprit
seems to be the case labels that are created and need to be scanned by
the GC.
Best,
luke
On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Nathan Kurz wrote:
When doing repeated regressions on large data sets, I'm finding that
the time spent on garbage
When doing repeated regressions on large data sets, I'm finding that
the time spent on garbage collection often exceeds the time spent on
the regression itself. Consider this test program which I'm running
on an Intel Haswell i7-4470 processor under Linux 3.13 using R 3.1.2
compiled with ICPC 14