[Rcpp-devel] R.e. First foray into Rcpp and comparison of speed with R

[Christian Gunning]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> Uh-oh. Factor 10. Wow.

Yeah, huh?  To be fair, this example is ultra-contrived.  The *only*
thing that happened was indexing.
Is it possible that compiler magic (ala loop unrolling that isn't done
for () ) accounts for any of the speedup?  I have basically no
experience with this.

> Matrix is different because we cannot do [i, j] for C legacy reasons. So both
> variants may be fast...

Yeah, but we *can* do linear access of a matrix with something like [
i+nrow*j ], which shouldn't have any bound checking (right??).  I
still don't see how linear bracket access on a matrix doesn't behave
the same as linear bracket access on vector compared to their
respective () behaviors...

-xian

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