nitter
Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel
21 Dec 2014
Attention, rant coming: On another annoying Julia-vs-R post
goo.gl/jqja2J
#rstats
#rcpp
Dec 21, 2014 · 3:48 PM UTC
12
36
42
Load newest
Joshua Ulrich
@joshua_ulrich
21 Dec 2014
Replying to
@eddelbuettel
.
@eddelbuettel
Also: 1st "ripped-off" post comment has function similar to Julia benchmark
goo.gl/wFAS1D
and your fibR()
Lance Bachmeier
@LanceBachmeier
21 Dec 2014
Replying to
@eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel
They should instead focus on calling Julia from R. They don't seem to understand that rewriting working code is bad.
1
1
Jonathon Love
@jjjjonathon
21 Dec 2014
Replying to
@eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel
, at least they're not using matrix multip as a metric - typ. just some native code. fibci does actually test the interpreter.
This tweet is unavailable
Dirk Eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel
22 Dec 2014
Because use of LAPACK, BLAS, ... is a bad idea? MT
@scottgonyea
"writing C/C++ in R is one of my biggest criticisms of it"
#headscratching
2