Marsland, John
2003-Aug-05 11:06 UTC
[Rd] RE: [R] ^ operation much slower in R 1.7.1 than in R 1.7 .0 ???
I used the packaged "MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe" exactly as specified on http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ - in fact I used these recommendations throughout. According to the release notes MinGW version 2.0.0 contains the following list of packages: GCC-3.2-core-20020817-1 binutils-2.13-20020903-1 mingw-runtime-2.2 w32api-2.0 gdb-5.1.1-1 make-3.79.1-20010722 (binary renamed as mingw32-make) Regards, John Marsland> -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: 05 August 2003 09:50 > To: Marsland, John > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: RE: [Rd] RE: [R] ^ operation much slower in R 1.7.1 than in R > 1.7 .0 ??? > > > So that pretty conclusively nails this as a compiler/runtime > difference. > Which versions of the compiler and mingw-runtime did you use? > > We'll need to wait until Duncan M returns to find out what he used. > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Marsland, John wrote: > > > I have both the CRAN binary and my own compiled version of > R v1.7.1 on the > > same machine (Dell Pentium III 800 MHz running NT 4) > > > > Using the example provided earlier: > > > > > phi <- 1.6180339887498949 > > > a <- floor(runif(750000)*1000) > > > system.time(b <- (phi^a - (-phi)^(-a))/sqrt(5))[3] > > > > I get 10.99 secs on the CRAN binary and 2.09 secs on my own compiled > > version. > > > > I hope this helps someone ... > > > > Regards, > > > > John Marsland > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Prof Brian D Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] > > > Sent: 05 August 2003 09:03 > > > To: Philippe Grosjean > > > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > > > Subject: [Rd] RE: [R] ^ operation much slower in R 1.7.1 than > > > in R 1.7.0 > > > ??? > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > > > > > > I propose to move this thread to R-devel... > > > > > > > > Prof. Brian Ripley wrote: > > > > >And are you able to give an explanation? For example, did > > > you compile > > > > >each under the same compiler system? > > > > > > > > I just noticed that behaviour yesterday, and had not much > > > time yet to > > > > investigate it. I compiled 1.7.0 myself (but compared with > > > the binary > > > > provided on CRAN; no changes). I used the 1.7.1 binary > > > provided on CRAN. I > > > > know these binaries are not supported, so we (Windows > > > users) will have to > > > > look at that by ourselve. Indeed yes, I'll first compile > > > 1.7.1 with the same > > > > compiler I used for 1.7.0. > > > > > > > > >I doubt if this is worth R-core's time to pursue, so over > > > to interested > > > > >users to find an explanation and fix. > > > > > > > > OK. But I was wondering if people at R-core team, > > > especially those who > > > > worked on Windows specific aspects, would have in mind some > > > changes they did > > > > between 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 than can cause this. Since these > > > changes are mainly > > > > corrections of bugs, the list is hopefully not so long... > > > and it could help > > > > a lot to have these hints. Thanks very much. > > > > > > No idea from me, and the effect is not seen on other platforms. > > > > > > -- > > > Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk > > > Professor of Applied Statistics,http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > ********************************************************************** > This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \ T...{{dropped}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \ T...{{dropped}}