Re: [Gretl-devel] Collection of gretl speed examples
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
it has often been said that many people do not take gretl seriously as a
high-performance research tool.
Today Jack posted a file on the sourceforge tracker which runs some
comparison benchmarks. I am copying and attaching that file here. (For a
successful run you'll need to have R and Octave and Julia installed I
believe.)
Yes, this is correct. It'd be also interesting to see what happens using
Matlab instead of Octave (if you're not ideologically averse to the use of
non-free software).
Anyway, my script is just a little toy thingie that I use to support the
claim that hansl is a perfectly good language for serious number
crunching. However, there are so many more things that could (and should)
be tested, in order to have a proper comparison. Back in the day, a guy
by the name of Stefan Steinhaus used to maintain a comprehensive collection
of scripts for benchmarking matrix-oriented languages: the latest
reference I was able to find is:
http://www.cybertester.com/data/ncrunch4.pdf
It'd be nice to use some of that too.
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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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