Jonathan Carroll<p>New post: <a href="https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/06/29/counting-digits-quickly/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jcarroll.com.au/2025/06/29/cou</span><span class="invisible">nting-digits-quickly/</span></a></p><p>What if you could just wave a magic wand over your R <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> :rstats: code and have it transform into something that ran as fast as or faster than C? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@t_kalinowski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>t_kalinowski</span></a></span>'s {quickr} 'R to Fortran Transpiler' does that for you! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fortran</span></a> </p><p>With bonus comparisons to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rcpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rcpp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/julialang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>julialang</span></a> :julia: and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a> :rust:</p><p>Updated to restrict to integers thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@toddixd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>toddixd</span></a></span></p>