Hello,
    In comparing the following scripts, the matrix operations are much
    more time-consuming tasks. Is such a behaviour normal ? I was under
    the understanding that handling matrices is quicker than operations
    on series.  :-[ 
    
    cheers,
    artur
    
    nulldata 10000
      series x = normal()
      
      series example = 0
      loop for i = 1..$nobs --quiet
          example[i] = x[i]
      endloop
      
      matrix example2 = zeros($nobs,1)
      loop for i = 1..$nobs --quiet
          example2[i,1] = x[i]
      endloop
    
    
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