On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Saptarshi Guha wrote:
> Thank you. So the reason I wouldnt need to protect y had I returned to
> R, is because had i had done something like
>
> h<-.Call("boo",a)
> where "boo" contains y=foo()
>
> the assignment "<-" to h would have a PROTECT somewhere, i.e R's
> assignment is doing the protection for me.
> Had I not returned to R, I would have to do it myself.
>
> Yes PROTECT is quite cheap, I had thought it to be costly but 1MM
> PROTECT/UNPROTECT calls, takes <1 second (on a macbook 2.16ghz)
That's not where the cost would be. PROTECT/UNPROTECT calls themselves are
very cheap, since they just push and pop pointers from a stack. Any real impact
of different strategies in using PROTECT would be seen in the garbage
collector.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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