The upcoming upgrade to Armadillo (version 3.2) will have a bunch of speedups, including faster eigen-decomposition. Armadillo 3.2 is currently in beta testing.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > I do not think you will get '2x'. I'd say between 1/5 to 1/3. > > Not neglible, but not earth-shattering given that > > a) Armadillo is easier to work with (IMHO, and personal taste) and > > b) you'd loose OS X as a platform on CRAN (as per Alfons example and why he > added sparseLTSEigen as a plugin for robustHD) and (AFAICT) why Doug > can't move forward with the Eigen-based lme4 rewrite. _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
