timing R and R and R and R
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David A Richmond wrote:
I am moving away from os9 and doing as much as I possibly can in osX. I am going to abandon 9 completely as soon as it is feasible for me to do everything I need to do in X. What I would like to see most is a Cocoa version of R. It is my understanding that Carbon is nice for cross-OS compatibility, but ultimately Cocoa is the API of choice. Would I be correct in assuming that performance differences Jan found would also be seen between a Carbon app and a Cocoa app?
I don't think we know. It's a reasonable guess, but there could be user interface overhead. The difference is suprisingly large given that (IIRC) R runs with almost the same speed under Windows and Linux on the same hardware. -thomas