> > Perhaps the R version of the microbenchmarks could be run on Revolution R > Open, http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/download/. The major difference > between RRO and other versions is that RRO incorporates MKL. For one or > two of the benchmarks this could make a difference. >
Here are the numbers from the test machine. RRO 8.0.1 was built from source
locally.
Fortran Julia R RRO
gcc 4.8.2 0.4.0-dev+2241 3.1.2 8.0.1
fib 0.49 2.01 519.81 466.03
parse_int 4.08 1.58 49.34 49.34
quicksort 1.12 1.02 231.82 231.82
mandel 0.73 0.72 54.06 56.51
pi_sum 0.84 0.83 13.47 14.45
rand_mat_stat 0.99 1.57 15.82 14.46
rand_mat_mul 4.59 1.03 6.13 1.85
