Re: [igraph] Speed comparison of R and C

[Tamas Nepusz]

Dear William,

> I did an experiment as follow:
> 1. Create a full graph
> 2. For each edges, attach two attributes
> 3. For all edges, randomly pick an edge and read/write its value
>
> In R:
> 100 nodes, 4950 edges: 4 sec
Can you send us your actual code please? I'm pretty sure that you are
not making use of R's vectorization support and that's why you are
measuring such large run times. Looping (e.g., using a for loop) is very
slow in R, but in most cases it can be avoided.

-- 
T.