On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David Airey wrote:

> Stata has come out with a multiprocessor or multicore version. Is R
> headed in the same direction? I've been dreaming of buying a new dual-
> core notebook.

Not any time really soon.  However, R does benefit from dual processors on 
other systems and so presumably will on the macbooks, just because R can 
occupy one processor and all the other user overhead can be on the other.

        -thomas

Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Washington, Seattle

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