Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604170831360.30435@homer24.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2006-04-17T15:37:24Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: multiprocessor R?
In-Reply-To: <E7B584BC-9ACC-4388-BF17-4DE8F249A879@vanderbilt.edu>
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David Airey wrote:
> Stata has come out with a multiprocessor or multicore version. Is R
> headed in the same direction? I've been dreaming of buying a new dual-
> core notebook.
Not any time really soon. However, R does benefit from dual processors on
other systems and so presumably will on the macbooks, just because R can
occupy one processor and all the other user overhead can be on the other.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle