"They're both designed around completely in-memory arrays, which are passed around by-value with a copy-on-write scheme." True, but that doesn't invalidate my point. The datasets I'm typically working with are quite…
> R is somewhat slower Actually it's MUCH slower, up to a point of being entirely not usable for very large datasets (even ~100GB). True, much of MATLAB speed comes from using highly optimized BLAS (Math Kernel…
"They're both designed around completely in-memory arrays, which are passed around by-value with a copy-on-write scheme." True, but that doesn't invalidate my point. The datasets I'm typically working with are quite…
> R is somewhat slower Actually it's MUCH slower, up to a point of being entirely not usable for very large datasets (even ~100GB). True, much of MATLAB speed comes from using highly optimized BLAS (Math Kernel…