Optimize (R) function-call overhead

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Optimize (R) function-call overhead #70

Open gmbecker opened 1 year ago

gmbecker commented 1 year ago

Endorsed by Luke

There is a lot of overhead in calls to R functions. This includes argument matching, creating deferred evaluations, creating environments, saving system globals, among others.

Can this be improved?