[R] 32 vs 64 bit

[Roger D. Peng]

When we first moved to 64 bit I found that certain things were slower.  I 
believe it is because of the increased overhead for memory management.

-roger

Paul Gilbert wrote:
> I ran  R on an AMD Athlon 64 with a 32 bit Linux (by accident, I moved 
> the hard disk from another machine). Now, after install 64 bit Linux and 
> 64 bit R, I am finding some of my R tests are quite a bit slower, I 
> think because memory demands cause a lot of swap. Does anyone know if 
> extra memory usage would be mainly because of R itself, or is there a 
> lot of extra memory demand because of the OS, windowing system, and 
> other apps?
> 
> Paul Gilbert
> 
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