Re: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-22 Thread Luke Tierney
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Luke Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vectorized operations in R are also as fast as compiled C (because that is what they are :-)). A compiler such as the one I'm working on will be able to make most difference for non-vectorizable or not very

RE: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-20 Thread Luke Tierney
I hope to be making some substantial progress on this over summer. But I would not hold up any projects in anticipation of major R changes--the current recommended strategy of first writing something that is correct, profiling to find out where a performance problem is if there is one, and then

RE: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-20 Thread Jason Liao
Dear Prof. Tierney, Thank for very much for replying and we all appreciate what you have done for the R community. Currently I have been spoiled by R. I would love to be 100% R. I talked to Andy Liaw yesterday about how to make R faster. Maybe we need to explicitly declare variables in the

RE: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-20 Thread Luke Tierney
It is quite likely that we will move in a direction of supporting annotations or declarations of some sort as well--at least that is one of the things I am planning to investigate. I believe there is still some room for improvement without this, but larger improvements will I believe require some

Re: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Luke Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vectorized operations in R are also as fast as compiled C (because that is what they are :-)). A compiler such as the one I'm working on will be able to make most difference for non-vectorizable or not very vectorizable code. It may also be able to

Re: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Luke Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vectorized operations in R are also as fast as compiled C (because that is what they are :-)). A compiler such as the one I'm working on will be able to make most difference for non-vectorizable or not very

RE: [R] when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-04-18 Thread Liaw, Andy
Do you mean the byte code compiler? You can find it at: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/compiler/ Andy From: Jason Liao I am excited to learn that Prof. Tierney is bringing to us compiled R. I would like to learn when it will be available. This information will be useful in scheduling