[Rd] Speeding up library loading

[Ali -]

>4Mb R file just containing .Call()s? Never seen something like that.
>If these are all very small functions, lazy load won't be of that 
>advantage, because you have to load the index file anyway.
>
>You know, R including all base and recommended packages has just ~ 6Mb of R 
>code. Are you really sure about your code?

Positively. The wrapped library is actually much bigger than R, it brings a 
few hundered new classes to R. The library has been already wrapped to other 
languages like java, and the loading speed for these other languages is 
quite reasonable. I cannot see any reasons why not this can be done with R 
too -- as a computational application R is supposed to be efficient in all 
ways.

It seems that, so far, no packages as big as this one have been created for 
R. I would appreciate any clues from the development team for improving the 
performance of big packages in R.