[Rcpp-devel] Question on performance

Iñaki Ucar iucar at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 22 19:15:16 CEST 2018


FYI, you can find the code here:

https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-Economics


El sáb., 22 sept. 2018 a las 15:11, Dirk Eddelbuettel
(<edd at debian.org>) escribió:
>
>
> Jordi,
>
> On 22 September 2018 at 09:18, Georgi Boshnakov wrote:
> | I don’t see any code going with the revised version, but
> | looking at the code coming with the original paper, see  http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/RBC_codes.zip,
> | the following points come up:
>
> All excellent points.  Jordi, you should ask for the code.  It really sounds
> like something done either naively, or with a goal in mind.  "Rcpp code is
> C++ code" so any "N times" is silly -- setup costs, extra copies, ... etc pp.
>
> We may of course copy at the end from, say, bespoke C++ data structures to
> ours.  But for any non-trivial example the cost of that will be well under, say, 1%
> while still getting a "many times" speedup over alternative R solutions.  So
> a win for most people.  Hence 1444 packages on CRAN using it. Those people
> aren't all fools ...
>
> Dirk
>
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