On 20/03/2008 7:03 AM, m jacobson wrote: > Hi, > > After having used S+ in commercial setting and then R > in non-commerical (but still supporting my commercial > interests), I would like to give back, if possible. > > Where I can contribute: > 1. SCAN / PREVENT Stability and Threat analysis (big > open source presence supported by coverity) > 2. Intel Threaded Building Blocks library support to > leverage multicore CPUs (plan now for 8-way) > 3. VTune analysis/cache optimization for > identification of loop unrolls, etc. > > All this would be on linux (Fed8 at present), except I > do have an Intel compiler on Win if it was needed, > would need to find fortran compiler, make lots of > adjustments, I suspect. > > I've already started on #3 and would only take on #1 > if someone in the R project blessed, because David > Miller at coverity likes to support the broader > projects over lone-cowboy stuff.
You didn't mention this, but putting together (and maintaining) a tool chain for 64 bit Windows builds would be appreciated. > P.S. What an easy build, as far as open src goes, your > build person deserves credit. I'm currently setting > up to compare gcc to intel compiler on the R base and > rerunning the timing benchmarks. That's largely due to Brian Ripley's efforts, but there are many other contributors to it. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
