Re: [R] Why R is 200 times slower than Matlab ?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Aside from optiming your code by making use of R functions
> that use C underneath as much as possible the big difference
> between R and Matlab is Matlab's just-in-time compilation of
> code. When that was introduced in Matlab huge speedups of
> Matlab programs were noticeable.
>
> For R, there is a new package on CRAN, jit, that
> aims to provide similar speedups.

http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra/index.html

Great! I just found out about ra. In Python I love psyco and I guess I will test ra soon.

Thanks,
N.-

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