From phgrosjean at sciviews.org  Thu Nov 27 13:30:46 2003
From: phgrosjean at sciviews.org (Philippe Grosjean)
Date: Thu Nov 27 13:30:14 2003
Subject: [Rd] Power (^) 10x slower in R since version 1.7.1... What
	next?[Windows platform]
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0311262023290.476-101000@petrel>
Message-ID: <MABBLJDICACNFOLGIHJOIEGHDPAA.phgrosjean@sciviews.org>

Prof. Brian Ripley wrote:
>You might like to test the enclosed.  Drop the file into .../src/gnuwin32
>and edit the following line in Makefile there

>OBJS = $(SOURCES:.c=.o) e_pow.o
>                       ^^^^^^^^
>Then re-make.  This uses an existing solution, that from glibc (which MinGW
>will not want to use for licence reasons).  It's very fast and seems
>as accurate.

It is very fast! Thank you. This solves my problem!
By the way, will this patch be incorporated in the next official release of
R?
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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[Rd] Power (^) 10x slower in R since version 1.7.1... What next?[Windows platform]
Philippe Grosjean