trouble with tcltk (was RE: [R] trouble compiling R on Irix )

[Suchandra Thapa]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:11:12AM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Before I settle on a particular option, I'd like to ask one more question if
> I may: Are there any practical advantages to compiling R to 64-bit vs
> 32-bit?

    If you compile R as a 64 bit application you should be able to address more
than 4GB of ram, but I'm not sure if R will support this. Also 32bit 
applications will run a bit faster since their pointers are smaller and thus
more information can be kept on cpu caches.  The difference isn't that big 
however (I think it's about 5% or so).

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