Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.33.0111131131590.38952-100000@homer33.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2001-11-13T19:34:05Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: timing R and R and R and R
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0111131333300.18588-100000@jade.saintmarys.edu>
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