Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread dhinds
Martin Morgan wrote: > > Do you know if this is all happening inside a C function that could > > handle disabling and enabling GC? Or would it require doing this at > > the R level? For testing, I am turning GC on and off at the R level > Generally complicated operations across multiple functi

Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread Martin Morgan
On 11/14/2011 01:12 PM, dhi...@sonic.net wrote: Martin Morgan wrote: > On 11/14/2011 11:47 AM,dhi...@sonic.net wrote: > > dhi...@sonic.net wrote: > >> Martin Morgan wrote: > > > > I had done some google searches on this issue, since it seemed like it > > should not be too uncom

Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread dhinds
Martin Morgan wrote: > On 11/14/2011 11:47 AM, dhi...@sonic.net wrote: > > dhi...@sonic.net wrote: > >> Martin Morgan wrote: > > > > I had done some google searches on this issue, since it seemed like it > > should not be too uncommon, but the only other hit I could come up > > with was a thread

[Rd] R Development Center(s)

2011-11-14 Thread Edzer Pebesma
A while ago our institute was approached by a large company, say XXX, who asked whether we would like to become an Xxx development center, as we are active in the same area. After some negotation we did, believing there will be mutual benefits. Some time later, after putting up the Xxx development

Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread Martin Morgan
On 11/14/2011 11:47 AM, dhi...@sonic.net wrote: dhi...@sonic.net wrote: Martin Morgan wrote: Allocating many small objects triggers numerous garbage collections as R grows its memory, seriously degrading performance. The specific use case is in creating a STRSXP of several 1,000,000's of eleme

Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:47 AM, wrote: > dhi...@sonic.net wrote: >> Martin Morgan wrote: >> > Allocating many small objects triggers numerous garbage collections as R >> > grows its memory, seriously degrading performance. The specific use case >> > is in creating a STRSXP of several 1,000,000'

Re: [Rd] Moderating consequences of garbage collection when in C

2011-11-14 Thread dhinds
dhi...@sonic.net wrote: > Martin Morgan wrote: > > Allocating many small objects triggers numerous garbage collections as R > > grows its memory, seriously degrading performance. The specific use case > > is in creating a STRSXP of several 1,000,000's of elements of 60-100 > > characters each;

Re: [Rd] Including multiple third party libraries in an extension

2011-11-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Tyler Pirtle wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Tyler Pirtle wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Uwe Ligges > > wrote: > > > > > > On 13.11.2011 05:22, Tyler Pirtle wrote: > >

Re: [Rd] Including multiple third party libraries in an extension

2011-11-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 14.11.2011 03:55, Tyler Pirtle wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Tyler Pirtle wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Uwe Ligges< lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: On 13.11.2011 05:22, Tyler Pirtle wrote: On Sat, Nov 1