Paul Gilbert writes: Does anyone have an idea of how series a problem this is with large packages. R still runs slower than Splus 3.3 for me, and I wonder how big a part of the problem this is?
I suspect that it is a very large part of your problem. A substantial fraction (30% - 50% ?) of R's time is spent doing name lookup. I hope hashing will speed up name lookup by one or two orders of magnitude. I am part-way through making the changes now. Ross -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._