-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/09/10 12:26, Christofer Bogaso wrote: > Dear all, R offers integration mechanism with different programming > languages like C, C++, Fortran, .NET etc. Therefore I am curious on, > for heavy numerical computation which language is the fastest? Is > there any study? I specially want to know because, if there is some > study saying that C is the fastest language for numerical computation > then I would change some of my R code into C.
As far as I am aware, the two choices are C and Fortran - where it depends on the calculations, which one is faster. Cheers, Rainer > > Thanks for your time. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Tel: +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +27 - (0)8 39 47 90 42 Fax (SA): +27 - (0)8 65 16 27 82 Fax (D) : +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 Fax (FR): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyIxHYACgkQoYgNqgF2egofwQCePvkN3xewbSNEeKUiuxlL7Utx CxMAniGRwoAWfJ8VNTPHLXIbtpiZCrMd =fmFx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
