Hi, I want to compute a lot of values and I have tried to use memoise::memoise to speed-up the computation. However it is much slower using the memoised version.
I guess I have misunderstood how to use the package memoise or the purpose of the package. The code takes more than 2 minutes to finish but if I remove the line: "nextstep <- memoise(nextstep)" the code runs in less than 1 second. I was expecting a total different result. Here are the code: library(memoise) nextstep <- function(num) { if (num %% 2 == 0) { return(num/2) } num*3+1 } nextstep <- memoise(nextstep) for (idx in 1:1e4) { steps <- 0 current <- idx while (current != 1) { steps <- steps + 1 current <- nextstep(current) } cat(idx,steps,"\n") } Regards Martin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.