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Why the differences in processing times?

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Subject: Why the differences in processing times?
From: james.holtman@convergys.com
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:18:17 -0500

I have been running some test scripts on SPLUS 3.4 and SPLUS 5.1 on a UNIX SUN
system.  I ran the same scripts, but the processing times for 'sapply' were much
longer on the later 5.1 version (1.18 sec on 3.4, vs. 53.7 sec on 5.1).  Is this
going to be improved in the 6.0 version of SPLUS?

Here is the 3.4 version of the script:

S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996
> a.1_read.table('tempxx')
> str(a.1)
`data.frame':  11947 obs. of  6 variables:
 $ V1: num  2.23e+08 2.23e+08 2.23e+08 2.23e+08 2.23e+08 ...
 $ V2: class Factor ; 137 levels: AcsEqpChangeU,AcsEqpEqpU: 137 123 131 135 122
125 137 123 131 135 ...
 $ V3: num  95291241 95291648 95292370 95293231 95294016 ...
 $ V4: num  95291266 95291733 95292425 95293401 95294258 ...
 $ V5: num  95291241 95291241 95291241 95291241 95291241 ...
 $ V6: num  95295428 95295428 95295428 95295428 95295428 ...
> unix.time(a.2 <- sapply(split(seq(along=a.1$V1),a.1$V1),function(x,data){
        range(data$V3[x],data$V4[x])},data=a.1))
#
# processing time (1.18 seconds)
#
[1] 1.18 0.04 1.00 0.00 0.00

> str(a.2)
 Array [1:2, 1:3624] 2.27e+06 1.25e+08 2.89e+06 7.89e+06 4.05e+06 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr [1:3624] '0' '213523239' '214832258' '214832261' '214832262' ...
> a.2[,1:10]
             0 213523239 214832258 214832261 214832262 214832265 214832266
[1,]   2272005   2886983   4053772  97764719  97781919  97886481  97898252
[2,] 125063705   7888528  94045768  97765905  97806234  97888938  97904909
     214832276 214832277 214832281
[1,]  98079423  98110589  98241368
[2,]  98106012  98112765  98242305
> q()


Here is the 5.1 version of the same script.  The output was the same (thank
goodness):

S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1999 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Version 5.1 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.5 : 1999
> a.1 <- read.table('../tempxx')
> str(a.1)
`data.frame':  11947 obs. of  6 variables:
 $ V1: num  223069800 223069800 223069800 223069800 223069800 ...
 $ V2: class Factor ; 137 levels: AcsEqpChangeU,AcsEqpEqpU: 137 123 131 135 122
125 137 123 131 135 ...
  ..- attr(*, "class")= chr 'factor'
 $ V3: num  95291241 95291648 95292370 95293231 95294016 ...
 $ V4: num  95291266 95291733 95292425 95293401 95294258 ...
 $ V5: num  95291241 95291241 95291241 95291241 95291241 ...
 $ V6: num  95295428 95295428 95295428 95295428 95295428 ...
> unix.time(a.2 <- sapply(split(seq(along=a.1$V1),a.1$V1),function(x,data){
        range(data$V3[x],data$V4[x])},data=a.1))
#
# processing time (53.7 seconds)
#
[1] 53.74  0.11 54.00  0.00  0.00

> str(a.2)
 Array [1:2, 1:3624]   2272005 125063705   2886983   7888528   4053772 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr [1:3624] '0' '213523239' '214832258' '214832261' '214832262'
'214832265' ...
> a.2[,1:10]
         0 213523239 214832258 214832261 214832262 214832265 214832266 214832276
 214832277
   2272005   2886983   4053772  97764719  97781919  97886481  97898252  98079423
  98110589
 125063705   7888528  94045768  97765905  97806234  97888938  97904909  98106012
  98112765

 214832281
  98241368
  98242305
> q()



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