Re: [Gretl-devel] simulation speed
I have a spare Ubuntu machine (not very fast - dual core 1.66 Ghz)
that I can leave running on its own for 24 hours or longer without
any problem - I use it for Monte Carlo runs under Stata. However, I
simply don't have enough familiarity with either shell scripts or C
compilation to convert your instructions into a functioning
program. If you could give somewhat more detailed instructions, I
would be happy to run the test program to the end.
Gordon
As I mentioned, I ran the Crush suite on gretl without any
failures. I've now run most of Big Crush. I had to unplug my
laptop after about 14 hours, and got through 80 out of 106 tests,
again with no failures. The completed tests include all of the
"collisions" variants, on which Doornik said that standard
ziggurat failed. Obviously, though, it would be nice to run the
whole thing, which would require about 16 hours on my machine.
I'm attaching the source for the test program I used. I built the
program with:
CC = gcc -Wall -O2
CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 gretl`
LIBS = `pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 gretl`
glibtest: glib.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $< -ltestu01 $(LIBS)
Allin.