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It would be nice to also have some notes about performance of both the languages for each of the tasks compared. I believe pandas would be faster due to its imp
by vineet7kumar 11y ago
It would be nice to also have some notes about performance of both the languages for each of the tasks compared. I believe pandas would be faster due to its implementation in C. The last time I checked R was an interpreted language with its interpreter written in R.
- hadley 11y agoAnd like pandas, many of the performance bottlenecks in R have been re-written in C. See dplyr and data.table for packages that solve a similar problem to pandas with similar speed (and for some scenarios they're actually faster!)
- vineet7kumar 11y agoLooks interesting! Thanks for the information.