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R is from ~2000, while pandas started in 2011. Is it possible that the lack of compute power had an effect on the required performance characteristics?
by ColFrancis 6y ago
R is from ~2000, while pandas started in 2011. Is it possible that the lack of compute power had an effect on the required performance characteristics?
- juancb 6y agoR is much older than 2000, it's from 1993.
- andylynch 6y agoAnd it’s an implementation of S, originally from Bell Labs in 1976
- ColFrancis 6y agoThank you, my brief research led to a list of versions that had R 1.0 as 2000, but it appears that v0 lasted a good many years. Pandas as well was in v0 for many years so it is the better comparison to use like-for-like.
- noir_lord 6y agoThat's somewhat like libvips which was started when a 486 was state of the art - fast forward and it's an image processing monster.
- nojito 6y agodata.table is basically a highly optimized C library https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table