[Rd] strptime(): on Linux system it seems to call system time?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Sat, 20-Mar-2010 at 06:54PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

[...]

|> It seems to be  completely system-dependent. On Fedora 9, I see
|> 
|>    user  system elapsed
|>   2.890   0.314   3.374
|> 
|> but on openSUSE 10.3 it is
|> 
|>    user  system elapsed
|>   3.924   6.992  10.917
|> 
|> At any rate, I suspect that this is an issue with the operating system
|> and its C libraries, not with R as such.

Were those 32 or 64 bit?

With Fedora 11 and AMD Athlon 2 Ghz, I get

   user  system elapsed 
  1.395   0.294   1.885 

with Mepis 7 on a Celeron 1.6 Ghz,

   user  system elapsed 
  3.890   5.896   9.845 

Both of those are 32 bit.  
Maybe 64 bit does things very differently.



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