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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