Message-ID: <19966.16576.798684.673996@max.nulle.part>
Date: 2011-06-19T18:32:32Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: [Rcpp-devel] Short blog post on loop speed in R
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Fz52bWiYcYdthScKD+=qs7uH0dA@mail.gmail.com>
On 19 June 2011 at 13:20, Douglas Bates wrote:
| Interesting post, Christian. It turns out that the apply family can
| get better performance than the explicit loop but, as you have seen,
| no using aaply. The choices in this case are sapply or, slightly
| faster, vapply from the base package. I also tried using cmpfun from
| the compiler package but vapply is already very tight so compiling
| that call doesn't change the timing.
|
| As for the use of Rcpp, the STL containers and algorithms can be
| exploited to an even greater extent. If you are willing to jump
| through the hoops of defining a struct that inherits from
| std::binary_function then you can shorten the Rcpp-based code
| considerably. See the enclosed.
Now we're talking! Very nice post by Christian, and and a very impressive
follow-up by Doug. Keep it coming, guys
Dirk
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