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2004 Mar 27
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Re: [S] scalability
...a <- array(rnorm(3000*300*3), c(3000, 300, 3))
gc()
system.time(jjsa <- apply(jja, 1:2, sum)) # takes 30 seconds
sumS3 <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("sumS3")
sumS3.default <- function(x, ...) sum(x, ...)
gc()
system.time(jjsa3 <- apply(jja, 1:2, sumS3)) # takes 65 seconds
sumS4 <- function(x, ...) standardGeneric("sumS4")
setMethod("sumS4", signature(x="numeric"), function(x, ...) sum(x, ...))
gc()
system.time(jjsa4 <- apply(jja, 1:2, sumS4)) # takes 58 seconds
Questions:
It looks to me like the penalty for making the functions generi...