[R] ..of R, OS X, and linux

[Jan de Leeuw]

This would depend very much on the task. It is quite obvious that
for heavy floating point, especially double precision floating point
without tweaking, top of the line Pentium will be considerably
faster than current top of the line G4 (single processor). For ordinary
interactive computing, you will not see much difference, I think,
and for the really gigantic computing tasks you need to go to
multiple processors/multiple machines anyway.

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 10:16 AM, Michaell Taylor wrote:

>
> I am an avid linux user who is intrigued with apple's OS X.
>
> I am now considering purchasing another laptop - which may provide an  
> excuse
> to get a feel of OS X. Of course there are lots of considerations, but  
> R
> command file processing speed is a major factor.
>
> I know of many speed comparisons between G4/G3 and the various flavors  
> of
> Pentiums, but more useful would be one specifically utilizing R.
>
> Has anyone conducted such a test?
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