[R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Luke Tierney <luke at stat.uiowa.edu> writes:

> Vectorized operations in R are also as fast as compiled C (because
> that is what they are :-)).  A compiler such as the one I'm working on
> will be able to make most difference for non-vectorizable or not very
> vectorizable code.  It may also be able to reduce the need for
> intermediate allocations in vectorizable code, which may have other
> benefits beyond just speed improvements.

Actually, it has struck me a couple of times that these operations are
not as fast as they could be, since they are outside the scope of fast
BLAS routines, but "embarrassingly parallel" code could easily be
written for the relevant hardware. Even on uniprocessor systems there
might be speedups that the C compiler cannot find (e.g. because it
cannot assume that source and destination of the operation are
distinct).

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