The standard lib is limited for general programming, but many standard libraries are and often don’t have a package repository as good as CRAN. It seems the Gr

The standard lib is limited for general programming, but many standard libraries are and often don’t have a package repository as good as CRAN. It seems the Graal people managed to make R quite fast and is still being developed. Is there another faster? Any way, check out my blog post: http://bootvis.nl/fastr-sudokus/ http://bootvis.nl/fastr-sudokus/ However, fastR is not a drop in replacement yet. In any case, for me professionally, R slowness is never a problem. data.table does the heavy lifting. What is a confusing mess, is the object system.