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Running Compiled Code

Consider the code below, which compares two implementations of matrix multiplication: The first uses R's internal matrix multiplication and the second implements it through three nested loops, each containing a scalar multiplication. The first matrix multiplication is faster by several orders of magnitude even for a relatively small n. The key difference is that the built-in matrix multiplication runs compiled C++ code:

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