[R] 64 bit R slower than 32 bit R on Sun Sparc Solaris?

[Roger D. Peng]

Are you using an optimized BLAS for both builds?  That's one possibility.  Also, 
64-bit builds use up more memory initially since the pointers are bigger.  I've 
tried both 64-bit and 32-bit builds on Sparc/Solaris and haven't seen any slowdown.

-roger

Jason Liao wrote:

> Hello, everyone! I guess no one is still using R on Sun Sparc these
> days. But our department has a (pretty new) two-CPU Sun server. We
> recently compiled R as a 64 bit application and expected a performance
> boost. But it runs 25-30% slower than the 32 bit version of R. Anyone
> knows why this is so? Thanks!
> 
> Jason
> 
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