RE: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jason Liao wrote: Thanks for Prof. Ripley and Andy for your technical explantion. It seems that that the real CPU speed has not advanced as fast as these Ghz or other performance indicator suggest. Yes, my program is totally CPU intensive. It may not be even if you

Re: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jason Liao wrote: I have been using a laptop computer of Pentium III 1.13 Ghz. I heard that AMD's Athlon has excellent floating point capacity. So I bought a Athlon 2200+ laptop yesterday. I expected that new Athlon 2200+ will be twice as fast as the P III 1.13 GB. I ran

RE: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-23 Thread Jason Liao
] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU? On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jason Liao wrote: I have been using a laptop computer of Pentium III 1.13 Ghz. I heard that AMD's Athlon has excellent floating point capacity. So I bought a Athlon 2200+ laptop yesterday. I expected that new

Re: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-23 Thread A.J. Rossini
Jason Liao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R can not really use dual CPU for one R session if I understand correctly It certainly can, using message passing libraries or sockets. While it isn't technically one session, it's awfully similar to that, for the user. best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini /

RE: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-23 Thread Liaw, Andy
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU? On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jason Liao wrote: I have been using a laptop computer of Pentium III 1.13 Ghz. I heard that AMD's Athlon has excellent floating point capacity. So I bought a Athlon 2200

RE: [R] Dismal R performance of Athlon moble CPU?

2003-07-23 Thread M. Edward Borasky
I haven't gotten around to assembling the toolset required to build R on Windows, since most of what I do is smallish interactive problems. However, another possibility would be to load CygWin/XFree86 on your laptop (which I've done), then download Atlas 3.5.7 from SourceForge (which I've done),