Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor

Summary: Profiling R on modern processors shows >85% of runtime spent in processor stalls, with GC driving memory stalls. Temporaries trigger disk activity and swaps; results motivate cross-domain optimizations in DB/architecture/PL and data sharing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11239
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.9291284e-05
Overall Rank: 6,276 | 56.95%
DOI: 10.14778/2735471.2735478

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Authors

1. Shriram Sridharan (University of Wisconsin)
2. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sridharan_vldb15,
        title = {{Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor}},
        author = {Sridharan, Shriram and Patel, Jignesh M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {2},
        pages = {173--184},
        doi = {10.14778/2735471.2735478},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735471.2735478},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,284	SPOOF: Sum-Product Optimization and Operator Fusion for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2017	CIDR	7.5663058e-05
3,459	A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.3953716e-05
4,049	Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2015	SIGMOD	6.9369379e-05
7,991	Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities	2020	VLDB	5.5107319e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
1,039	RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL	2009	CIDR	0.00012474977
1,333	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001112858

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