[R-SIG-Mac] multiprocessor R?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David Airey wrote:

> Stata has come out with a multiprocessor or multicore version. Is R
> headed in the same direction? I've been dreaming of buying a new dual-
> core notebook.

Not any time really soon.  However, R does benefit from dual processors on 
other systems and so presumably will on the macbooks, just because R can 
occupy one processor and all the other user overhead can be on the other.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle