hard to believe speed difference

There's a wonderful book called S Programming, by Venables and Ripley
(familiar names, eh?), which should be a must-read in this case.  See:

        http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/Sprog/

for more details.  It's not clear that one could write a "lint" to
check for inefficiency; lint doesn't do that for C!

Can someone tell me if Edition 4 ("MASS4") is actually shipping yet?

-jday


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