Re: [Gretl-devel] memory with many discrete variables in large (panel) dataset
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
The speed-up via this approach is dramatic: 600 MB or so can be
written in 0.54 seconds and read back in 0.17 seconds. I've put a
table with my current results at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tmp/binzip.html
Confirmed here. One note of caution, everybody: if you decide to try out
Allin's script with bigger numbers than his, you'd better have LOTS of
RAM, or be prepared to see your computer gasping for air.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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