#!/usr/bin/env r set.seed(42) a <- rnorm(100) b <- rnorm(100) ## load shared libraries with wrapper code dyn.load("overhead_1.so") dyn.load("overhead_2.so") overhead_c_symbol <- getNativeSymbolInfo( "overhead_c" ) overhead_cpp_symbol <- getNativeSymbolInfo( "overhead_cpp" ) overhead_c <- function(a,b) .Call( overhead_c_symbol, a, b ) overhead_cpp <- function(a,b) .Call( overhead_cpp_symbol, a, b ) ## load benchmarkin helper function suppressMessages(library(rbenchmark)) res <- benchmark(overhead_cpp(a,b), overhead_c(a,b), columns=c("test", "replications", "elapsed", "relative", "user.self", "sys.self"), order="relative", replications=10000) print(res)