Basic performance test between standard R and Graal's FastR. Run on 2019-05-15 Preliminary results point to FastR being slower than standard R for this benchmark.

Results with a warmup introduced are more interesting:

• loess is comparable
• hilbert is comparable
• sort is still slower

• GraalVM CE 19.0.0
• FastR installed via $GRAALVM_HOME/bin/gu install R

• v3.6.0
• Installed from https://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/
• https://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/macosx/R-3.6.0.pkg

R benchmark copied from https://mac.r-project.org/benchmarks/bench.R

• Native R: R --no-save < benchmark.R > raw_R_result.txt
• Graal FastR: $GRAALVM_HOME/bin/R --no-save < benchmark.R > fastR_result.txt

R benchmark copied from https://mac.r-project.org/benchmarks/bench.R

• Native R: R --no-save < benchmark_v2.R > raw_R_result_v2.txt
• Graal FastR: $GRAALVM_HOME/bin/R --no-save < benchmark_v2.R > fastR_result_v2.txt

• MacBook Pro
• macOS Mojave 10.14.4
• Intel Core i7 2.2 GHz
• 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3