Most likely cause is that you're using non-constant global variables in
your code, but as Milan said, it's hard to tell without seeing the code.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Le dimanche 25 janvier 2015 à 08:45 -0800, Martin Kapfhammer a écrit :
> > I generated a data set
> > 10 000 000 rows á 2 elements
> > resulting in 476 MB
> >
> >
> > and cluster it using kmeans algorithms with k = 3.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Julia  over 5 minutes
> > R  20 seconds
> > Scipy 16 seconds
> >
> >
> > My machine has 12 cores and 64 MB memory.
> >
> >
> > Why are they so fast?
> Hard to tell. Could you share the code you used (for all the languages
> if possible)?
>
> > Are R and scipy clustering in parallel?
> You should be able to check that by looking at CPU use when running
> these commands.
>
>
> Regards
>
>

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