Re: [Gretl-users] Speed of "join"

Am 15.09.2013 01:52, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Artur T. wrote: > >> I just had an idea. As I am not a programmer, I do not know how >> tricky/difficult such things are to program. But if one could implement >> a multicore support for the join function, more than one variable could >> be read in simultaneously which speeds up the process. > > Worth thinking about, but paralellizing join would be quite > complicated. > > In the meantime, I think that you should find that the speed > improvement for join in current CSV is very substantial and makes it > feasible to use join in a loop for multiple series (even with big > data) without taking forever. Mmmhh, I couldn't figure out any substantial speed improvement on my old PC here. But I did some testing on more modern machines, and actually it seems to works quite reasonable there. I guess my machine is just too slow to expect some faster processing :-)