[Gretl-users] Re: Comparison of programming languages for economic research
Am 29.08.2020 um 19:40 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>> It's a pitty that people did not consider the gretl project. I am
>> wondering whether "we" may re-run the same experiments for gretl for
>> getting an idea how gretl would position.
>> https://www.modelsandrisk.org/appendix/speed_2020/
>
> I think we should prepare hansl version of the little code snippets
> that are on the webpage you linked.
Sorry for replying to myself: I now see that one of the tests is based
on reading a gzipped csv file. At present, I don't think we can do such
a thing, although it shouldn't be difficult to add IMO. Would it be
worthwhile?
I guess for the "open" command the standard reaction in the past would
have been: why not use any of the many free third-party tools to unzip
the file first?
Not denying that it would be a "nice to have", as always.
But perhaps for "join" it could be a sensible option?
cheers
sven