Le 09/09/2011 10:29, artur bala a écrit : > On my 4-year old machine (Core Duo T2450(a)2Ghz, > 2gb ram), it takes 0.468 seconds for 100 000 observations and 3,931 for > 1 000 000 observations. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE. Dear Allin, Something weird is still going on there. It worked absolutely fine before !!!!! After the above performance of your script (below), I moved back to 1.014 seconds for only 10 000 obs and to more than 22 seconds for a 50 000 obs dataset ?!?!
set echo off set messages off nulldata 10000 series x = normal() matrix m = zeros($nobs,1) set stopwatch loop for i = 1..$nobs --quiet m[i,1] = x[i] endloop printf "elapsed: %g seconds\n", $stopwatch