[Rcpp-commits] r2291 - pkg/Rcpp

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Author: edd
Date: 2010-10-08 14:26:23 +0200 (Fri, 08 Oct 2010)
New Revision: 2291

Modified:
   pkg/Rcpp/NEWS
Log:
some more additons to NEWS (talking about R 2.12, about noNA etc in sugar and
other speedups)


Modified: pkg/Rcpp/NEWS
===================================================================
--- pkg/Rcpp/NEWS	2010-10-07 23:13:01 UTC (rev 2290)
+++ pkg/Rcpp/NEWS	2010-10-08 12:26:23 UTC (rev 2291)
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 0.8.7   (future)
 
+    o   this Rcpp version now depends on R 2.12 or greater as it interfaces the
+        new reference classes (see below) and also reflects the POSIXt class
+        reordering both of which appeared with R version 2.12.0
+
     o   new Rcpp::Reference class, that allows internal manipulation of R 2.12.0
         reference classes. The class exposes a constructor that takes the name
         of the target reference class and a field(string) method that implements
@@ -12,7 +16,12 @@
         are R reference classes.  They can be subclassed in R, and/or R methods
         can be defined using the $methods(...) mechanism.
 
+    o   internal performance improvements for Rcpp sugar as well as an added
+        'noNA()' wrapper to omit tests for NA values -- see the included
+        examples in inst/examples/convolveBenchmarks for the speedups
 
+    o   more internal performance gains with Functions and Environments
+
 0.8.6   2010-09-09
 
     o	new macro RCPP_VERSION and Rcpp_Version to allow conditional compiling