[R] sys.time question - how to improve R performance

2008-04-26 Thread Jiří Voller
Dear R-users, I run my program a difference between sys.times is as follows: user system elapsed 60167.53 2848.75 63278.93 I am quite puzzled how it may happen that system time is so much shorter than user time, I have 2 core computer most of the time (90%) I was not doing anything else

Re: [R] sys.time question - how to improve R performance

2008-04-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jiří Voller wrote: Dear R-users, I run my program a difference between sys.times is as follows: user system elapsed 60167.53 2848.75 63278.93 I am quite puzzled how it may happen that system time is so much shorter than user time, I have 2 core computer most of the