[Bioperl-l] Public Release of the Xobjects gene expression package

[Nathan O. Siemers]

Hello Todd:

        None of the Xobjects release has been thoroughly optimized for
        speed.  However, since it was written inline c has appeared,
        which would make such endeavors easier to graft on.

        nathan


Todd Richmond <todd@andrew2.stanford.edu> writes:

> It may be ugly - but is it fast? I tried using Statistics::Descriptive for
> some of my microarray work, but discovered that the overhead of creating the
> Statistics objects made it too slow. I benchmarked it 8-9X slower than a
> simple hand-coded subroutine, using it to find the mean of 3 values, 20000
> times.

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