Looks fun. However, what is REALLY slow in R isn't the interpreter or garbage collector: but some of the object re-allocation patterns you accidentally trigger

Looks fun. However, what is REALLY slow in R isn't the interpreter or garbage collector: but some of the object re-allocation patterns you accidentally trigger. Here is my note making some comparisons and recommendations on writing fast code in R: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/07/efficient-accumulation-in-r/ http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/07/efficient-accumulatio...