st: Mata questions

["Rodrigo Alfaro" <ralfaro76@hotmail.com>]

Dear Stata users

I would like to know how good is Mata in compare with a really low-level 
language (as C or C++). In order to understand my question I give you my 
problem: "I have to write a procedure for Multiple Imputation (MI). My 
framework is a panel-data (longitudinal) and the dataset is huge." I am 
almost sure that a C-code is the solution for my problem, but Mata could be 
an alternative for this purpose. I did a search over other possibles 
software and only R offers a good solution, but anyway I have to write the 
code in this language, which I am not familiar with.

Thanks in advance for any comment on this.
Rodrigo.

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