Hi R-developers,
R (unlike say C++) is rather interactive/interpreter language
with some high-order functions support. There is a nice project,
which able to bring exactly these type of language implementations
to a next performance level. I mean LLVM (http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/)
LLVM could bring performance of R very close to
compilable languages like C++ or even overperform them
in some cases. Every function in LLVM might be compiled
in run-time before execution, what is very nice for
interactive environments.
It would be nice if R-developers could take a glance
at LLVM before they start to move towards next major
version of R.
P.S. i guess this mail is rather for this page with other
ideas: http://developer.r-project.org/ideas.txt
with best regards
--
Valery