On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
 Not sure. The bootstraps in johansensmall and SVAR all benefit from
gretl's 
 native varsimul() function. At least for johansensmall the author of similar 
 Matlab code told me the speed is basically the same, and I assume that Matlab 
 tries to do some JITting there. 
Yes, that's the feedback I got from Beppe Cavaliere and his co-authors 
too.
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   Università Politecnica delle Marche
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