I still can't reproduce this with lots of empty strings, but the way they
are handled was changed in R-patched -- but not with the intention of
avoiding a performance bottleneck, just to simplify the code.
I don't get object sizes as large as 500Kb, but it will be the case that
"" is shared in
Problem fixed by R-patched, thanks; see comments below.
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I'm encountering excruciatingly slow load times for character vectors
>> in R 2.6.0-- up to 30sec for a 15K file that contains a no-attributes
>> character vector of length ~1e4 and object
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm encountering excruciatingly slow load times for character vectors in
> R 2.6.0-- up to 30sec for a 15K file that contains a no-attributes
> character vector of length ~1e4 and object size ~0.5MB. In R 2.5.1,
> repeated loads of the same set of fi
