Re: [Gretl-devel] schedule for 1.7.5
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
However, I did experience what was maybe an infinite loop
problem. I'm not saying it's new, because I discovered it by
mistakenly typing a line I didn't really mean.
A two-liner is enough to demonstrate:
<script>
open [a data file with >500 variables, >200 obs each]
print
</script>
And gretl doesn't respond anymore...
What's your practical definition of "infinite"? Or in other
words, how long did you wait?
I just created an artificial dataset with 250 observations on 550
variables, opened it, and issued the "print" command in the
console. Yes, it took about 40 seconds of 100% CPU, but then I
got the printout OK.
This is mostly a GUI performance issue. The same thing in
gretlcli executes in just a second or two.
Allin.