Table 5. Timing comparison on a synthetic dataset of size n = 50, 000 and p = 100, 000.

The time for bigstatsr and biglasso has two components: one for the conversion to the desired data type and the other for the actual computation. The experiments are all run with 16 cores and 64 GB memory.

R Package	Elapsed Time (minutes)
bigstatsr [55]	2.93 + 56.80
bigstatsr + CMSA [55]	2.93 + 101.75
biglasso [54]	4.55 + 54.27
PLINK [13, 14]	53.52
snpnet	44.79