[Gretl-devel] Re: Datatype of Int or Float in gretl

Am 01.10.2019 um 21:45 schrieb Artur Tarassow: > > I tried to find out what's the default datatype gretl stores integers > or float values. However, I could not find any information on this. I believe everything is a double. In 2014 it was said that a massive rewrite would be needed to change this architecture. OTOH, now that complex numbers are also supported, maybe that isn't true anymore, I don't know.

> > Also, is it somehow possible to define the datatype of a series in > gretl? I would like to restrict the datatype of series S to int8 or so > in order to safe memory space. As for the RAM requirement, I don't think that is currently possible (see above - because everything is a double). But for storing the data marking variables as discrete may help somewhat.