[R-SIG-Mac] auto vectorizing gcc?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> Now where would the speedup be coming from ? vecLib
> has already been optimized, and vectorizing does not
> handle double precision floating point.

The only things I could imagine are some loops on R objects (such as 
integer vectors), but you're right, it's very unlikely that this would 
affect R code. I could only think of C code in packages under some 
circumstances ... but admittedly rare. According to my tests you can 
get ca. 30% speed gain alone by using gcc optimization flags, but R 
won't make several basic the checks then ;). If you know what you're 
doing, it may be ok (but don't rely on NAs then - they may turn into 
zeroes).

Cheers,
Simon