[Gretl-users] Re: gretl 2022c coming soon
On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Allin Cottrell wrote:
We plan to release gretl 2022c before long, and today's snapshot
can
be considered a "release candidate". We'd be grateful if people could
beat on the snapshots (or the git master code) and help us shake out
any remaining bugs before release.
If I may:
this version (the 2022c candidate) contains vast improvements in the way
user-written functions are handled internally. This should translate into
a sizeable speedup of certain feaures. For example, addons such as gig or
SVAR should be much faster, and the same should happen to function
packages like CUB, DFM, MGARCH or StrucTiSM[*].
We (the development team) tested the new features very extensively for
some time, and we're confident none of your old code should break, but
just in case: if you have gretl code lying around that you can use for
testing, please do so asap and tell us if you see anything strange.
Thenk you.
[*] disclaimer: these are all packages that I co-authored. I'm not trying
to promote my own work here, I'm just mentioning them because I know their
internals well and I feel confident in anticipating that their performance
should be much better.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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