Re: [R] R/octave/matlab etc.

2009-01-05 Thread luke
speed advantage. Have a good day, Bill -Original Message- From: John C Nash [mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:51 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] R/octave/matlab etc. I'd echo a lot of what has been said about this by the folk who have been making

Re: [R] R/octave/matlab etc.

2009-01-05 Thread Denney, William S.
that Matlab has the just in time (JIT) compiler, and it is responsible for almost all of the loop speed advantage. Have a good day, Bill -Original Message- From: John C Nash [mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:51 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] R/octave/matla

[R] R/octave/matlab etc.

2009-01-04 Thread John C Nash
I'd echo a lot of what has been said about this by the folk who have been making R work so well. One of the main difficulties is that the environment of computations affects relative performance. e.g., what settings did a distro package builder choose. I note that my 3 GHz Dual Core machine run