On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> wrote: [...] > Would you please provide the details on this test case, including your > benchmarks, and what you are trying to achieve at the high-level?
You can also see http://rpubs.com/wch/17459 Linked from https://github.com/wch/R6/ and also from CRAN, actually: http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/R6/README.html > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Niek Bouman <niek.bou...@keygene.com> wrote: [...] >> Background: >> For a new project we will have many mutable objects, and we therefore want >> to use a construction like reference classes in this project. However, we >> observed that the speed performance of our implementation (using reference >> classes) for a simple test case is rather poor compared to a non-OOP >> implementation. Further, turning the reference classes into R6classes (using >> the R6 package) gave the best performance. As speed is an issue in our >> project, this would for us be an important reason to use R6 classes instead >> of reference classes. The drawback, of course, is that the R6 package is >> developed by a single developer and that further development is therefore >> less certain than if we would use reference classes, which are in the core. >> Ideally we would like a system like R6 in the core of R. Are you planning to >> support R6, or improve reference classes to be on par with (or better than) >> R6 in terms of speed, in the core? R6 is backed by RStudio, for example their Shiny framework uses R6 classes, so I would not be too worried about this. Gabor [...] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
