On 27 August 2012 at 11:31, Peng Yu wrote:
| The following code shows that inline function is over 10 times faster
| than .Call and calling .Call directly is slower than call .Call by
| wrapping it in another function. Is this expected?
inlines uses .Call, so there is a slight logical problem here... And yes,
functions have overheads.
| library(microbenchmark)
| microbenchmark(test(xx))
| microbenchmark(test_inline(xx))
| microbenchmark(.Call('test', xx))
The normal idiom is a _single_ call so that you can compare:
microbenchmark(test(xx), test_inline(xx), .Call('test', xx))
Dirk
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