[R-SIG-Mac] Old Dell running faster than new MacBook

[wouter.buytaert at scarlet.be]

Hi Nils,

try R from the terminal with X11 graphics instead of R.app. I've noticed 
it is often much faster, also for non-graphics stuff.

cheers
wouter

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Nils Rüfenacht wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:07:18 +0200
> From: Nils Rüfenacht <nils.ruefenacht at bluewin.ch>
> To: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Old Dell running faster than new MacBook
> 
> I recently changed from a 4 year old Dell running on Windows XP to a mew 
> MacBook Pro running on OS X 10.5. I expected to save an amount of runtime 
> when executing my R code now, but I was mistaken.
>
> I didn't figure out what the problem could be! Same code is running about 30% 
> (!) slower now!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> N.R.
>
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