AD Model Builder, revisted

Following the instruction (http://admb-project.org/documentation/admb-installation-linux), I got ADMB installed and running on my Ubuntu laptop. I have not spent much time on it, but its design philosophy, convert text input into C++ source file and then compile and run the resulted C++ file, seems to be promising, and is certainly advantageous over its competitor with regard to performance. After all, what runs faster than fully optimized C++ code?

It also works on Windows using MingW. 

Here is the interface between ADMB (and a few other languages) and R: http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/mprager/rinter.html

This is an Emacs editing environment for ADMB: http://wilberglab.cbl.umces.edu/downloads.html, but the Emacs version is quite old. 

A benchmark can be found here: http://www.otter-rsch.com/admbre/examples/socatt/socatt.html

This is the ADMB random effect modeling homepage: http://otter-rsch.com/admbre/admbre.html