[Rcpp-devel] How to increase the coding efficiency

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

this part will always make your code crawl along:

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Honglang Wang
<wanghonglang2008 at gmail.com>wrote:

>   arma::vec betahat = arma::inv(Inv)*arma::trans(D)*W*y;
>

first time I wrote a GLM engine, I wrote it the way statistics books
illustrate it (i.e. actually invert things to do IWLS) and it crawled.  I
took it to a physicist friend who went through alternate stages of disgust
and laughter then told me never to invert anything I didn't have to.

You should take Doug Bates' advice, it could save you a great deal of time.
 Never bit fiddle when you can use a better algorithm.


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