[R-sig-hpc] snow and foreach memory issue?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sat Dec 12 01:09:14 CET 2009


On 11 December 2009 at 15:11, Zhang, Ivan wrote:
| Thanks for your pointer, 
| 
| What my concern is that if I do decide to scale this, when I use method
| 1 vs. 2,
| 
| one of them is significantly worse in terms of memory management, not
| sure how I could have written it differently that would have made a
| difference.

Understood -- but this is awfully hard to say "in general" so the typical
response is: you try it with some different task sizes and profile for time
and/or memory use.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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