[R-SIG-Mac]another benchmark

[Jan de Leeuw]

Here is another quick and dirty benchmark I have used, one that uses no
ATLAS and no FORTRAN. Simply

system.time(sort(rnorm(10^n)))

where n is 6 or 7. Compare

Darwin 1.4.1, Darwin patched, Darwin devel, Carbon

for n=6 this gives 100, 105, 102, 138 (relative to 1.4.1 which takes 11 
secs)
for n=7 this gives 100, 111, 102, 135 (relative to 1.4.1 which takes 175 
secs)

The dual 1Ghz is 30% faster than the dual 800 Mhz here, and the Darwin
version is 30% faster than the Carbon version (and again something is
wrong with the R-1.4.1 patched I use).
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