[R] Which language is faster for numerical computation?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 09/09/10 12:26, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
> Dear all, R offers integration mechanism with different programming
> languages like C, C++, Fortran, .NET etc. Therefore I am curious on,
> for heavy numerical computation which language is the fastest? Is
> there any study? I specially want to know because, if there is some
> study saying that C is the fastest language for numerical computation
> then I would change some of my R code into C.

As far as I am aware, the two choices are C and Fortran - where it
depends on the calculations, which one is faster.

Cheers,

Rainer

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