I computed "system.time(diag(30000))" with R 2.12.0 on Fedora 13 Linux
with 4 GB RAM and with R 2.14.1 on Windows 7 with 8 GB RAM:
Linux (4 GB RAM): 0, 0.21, 0.21 -- a fifth of a second
Windows 7 (8 GB RAM): 11.37 7.47 93.19 -- over 1.5 minutes. Moreover,
during most of that time, I could not switch windows or get any response
from the system. When I first encountered this, I thought Windows was
hung permanently and the only way out was a hard reset and reboot.
On both systems, diag(30000) generated, "Error: cannot allocate
vector of size ___ Gb", with "___" = 3.4 for Linux with 4 GB RAM and 6.7
for Windows with 8 GB RAM. Linux with half the RAM and an older version
of R was done with this in 0.21 seconds. Windows 7 went into suspension
for over 93 seconds -- 1.5 minutes before giving an error message.
I don't know how easy this would be to fix under Windows, but I
felt a need to report it.
Best Wishes,
Spencer
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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San José, CA 95126
ph: 408-655-4567
web: www.structuremonitoring.com
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