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Limited C API is not as abstract as HPy. Most notably Limited C API still exposes reference counting as memory management mechanism, HPy abstracts that. However, ecosystem wide ado…

There is basic GraalPy support in Maturin[0] and PyO3[1], the problem is often that packages require older Maturin/PyO3 versions and/or they use CPython-isms, semi-public APIs, etc…

RDS files are a common way of sharing serialized R objects. Promises are valid R objects and supported by this serialization format. They always have been and I believe it is an in…

No, you'd have to take all the profit of all the companies in the country and divide that by the number of citizens. That would be true socialism. Like a kibbutz in Israel. IMO it …

FastR doesn't alter the semantics of R, so when dplyr copies a vector in GNU-R then FastR has to copy it too. However, FastR does use reference counting (not sure if that's turned …

There is a plot of warm-up curves for this specific example. Search for "To make the analysis of that benchmark complete, here is a plot with warm-up curves". However, it is true t…

Plese open an issue on GitHub if you encounter any more problems with gsub or anything else.

FastR can actually run all tests of the development version of dplyr with a simple patch. We're working on removing the need for that patch altogether. data.table is a different be…

FastR also uses native BLAS and LAPACK libraries. It should be possible to link it with Intel MKL as well. We didn't want to include comparison to R-3.5.X, because FastR itself is …