Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Maechler
PhGr == Philippe Grosjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:15 +0200 writes: PhGr Hello, PhGr I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it PhGr and make it compatible with R 2.7.0, David? I'll not really rewrite it (to make it nice in my

Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-14 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Martin Maechler wrote: PhGr == Philippe Grosjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:15 +0200 writes: PhGr Hello, PhGr I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it PhGr and make it compatible with R 2.7.0, David? I'll not really rewrite it

Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Maechler
MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:05:00 +0200 writes: PhGr == Philippe Grosjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:15 +0200 writes: PhGr Hello, PhGr I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it PhGr and

Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-13 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it and make it compatible with R 2.7.0, David? Best, Philippe Grosjean ..°})) ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( (Prof. Philippe Grosjean ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( (Numerical

Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-13 Thread Baker D.J.
:10 To: Baker D.J. Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R benchmarking program Hello, I did this bechmark test. Perhaps is it a good oppotunity to rewrite it and make it compatible with R 2.7.0, David? Best, Philippe Grosjean

Re: [R] R benchmarking program

2008-05-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The best benchmark is a calculation you really want to do. For most people matrix algebra is an insignificant proportion of what they do in R. A few need complex matrix arithmetic (where compilers and BLAS differ a lot in speed). So there is no universal benchmark. Also, the reference BLAS