[R] Why R is 200 times slower than Matlab ?

[Nelson Castillo]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aside from optiming your code by making use of R functions
>  that use C underneath as much as possible the big difference
>  between R and Matlab is Matlab's just-in-time compilation of
>  code.  When that was introduced in Matlab huge speedups of
>  Matlab programs were noticeable.
>
>  For R, there is a new package on CRAN, jit, that
>  aims to provide similar speedups.

http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra/index.html

Great! I just found out about ra. In Python I love psyco and I guess I will test
ra soon.

Thanks,
N.-

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