[Rd] Bug in URLencode and patch

2015-01-11 Thread Thomas J. Leeper
I believe the implementation of utils::URLencode is non-compliant with RFC 3986, which it claims to implement (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Specifically, its percent encoding uses lowercase letters a-f, which it should use uppercase letters A-F. Here's what URLencode currently produces: l

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