On 02/09/05, Nam-Ky Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > b) You do NOT want to do numerical computations on software available in > > Java byte code. > You do not want to do heavy numerical computations with R either. Most > statistical calculation using R requires a fraction of a second and I > cannot see a real difference between say 0.05 second and 0.07 second. NKN.
It is my understanding that the problem with Java is that it wasn't written with serious numerical computation in mind - as far as I know only in the latest version have Sun started to be address this issue. The byte code for the java virtual machine has a flawed numerical model which is not fully compliant with the IEEE754 standard - this has nothing to do with speed of computation. Furthermore the integer model is very restrictive when you want to work on random numbers using bit-twiddling. cheers! Sean ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
