Thanks for the replies and please excuse my failure to provide
sessionInfo():
WINDOWS 7 WITH 8 GB RAM:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONET
On 22/03/2012 06:11, Peter Meilstrup wrote:
My guess would be that it's a matter of having swap space be a dedicated
partition or fixed-size file (Linux, usually) versus swapping to a regular
file that grows as needed (Windows and OS X, usually.) So if you
defragmented your drive and set Windows
My guess would be that it's a matter of having swap space be a dedicated
partition or fixed-size file (Linux, usually) versus swapping to a regular
file that grows as needed (Windows and OS X, usually.) So if you
defragmented your drive and set Windows to have a fixedsize swap file, it
would probab
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Spencer Graves
wrote:
> I computed "system.time(diag(3))" 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
I computed "system.time(diag(3))" 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
