Re: [Rd] R-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 22

2012-03-22 Thread Terry Therneau
On 03/22/2012 09:38 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Terry Therneau > wrote: > >> > strongly disagree. I'm appalled to see that sentence here. > > Come on! > > >> The overhead is significant for any large vector and

Re: [Rd] R-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 22

2012-03-22 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: > >> >>> strongly disagree. I'm appalled to see that sentence here. >>> > >>> > Come on! >>> > >> The overhead is significant for any large vector and it is in >> particular unnecessary since in .C you have to allocate *and

Re: [Rd] R-devel Digest, Vol 109, Issue 22

2012-03-22 Thread Terry Therneau
>>> strongly disagree. I'm appalled to see that sentence here. >> > >> > Come on! >> > >>> >> The overhead is significant for any large vector and it is in >>> >> particular unnecessary since in .C you have to allocate*and copy* space >>> >> even for results (twice!). Also it is very er