Re: [Rd] Cost of garbage collection seems excessive

2015-01-11 Thread luke-tierney
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

[Rd] Cost of garbage collection seems excessive

2015-01-09 Thread Nathan Kurz
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