> -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The advantage of dual processors is that you can use the > machine for several things at once, including multiple R > jobs. For example, when I am doing package checking I am > typically checking 4 packages at once on a dual processor > machine to get continuous high utilization.
I would like to thank very much everybody taking part in discussion. Does an answer above suggest that I can open two R console and do simulations simultaneously? If so, all simulations take more or less 1/2 times - or much less then doing it in turn? During our discussion one mentioned that RAM is important. But in my computing I do not use up more then 500 MB. I have 786 MB it means (probably) that I have enough. Am I right? Best, Rob > I have little doubt that a Pentium 4 would be much slower > than the others. > > I've just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 primarily to run > 64-bit Linux, but it also has Vista 64 and XP (32-bit) on it. > I don't think the differences between the current dual-core > chips are really enough to worry about: they will all look > slow in less than a year. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
