[R] ^ operation much slower in R 1.7.1 than in R 1.7.0 ???

[Thomas Lumley]

On 4 Aug 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

>
> Hmm, on linux, I get approx 0.31 for the first example with 1.7.0,
> 1.7.1, r-patched, and r-devel. Similarly, I get 0.8 for the second ex.
> in all four cases.
>

I also  find a slowdown under Win2K.  Was there a compiler version change
with the Windows binary, perhaps?

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle