On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Richard Herron
<richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is an alternative solution with -reshape-, -cond-, and -sum-.
Cute solution!
> The last two functions should be fast at any scale, but I don't have
> enough experience with Stata to know if -reshape- is faster than a
> loop.
That's easy to check: set obs 10M instead of 10, and see what will be
faster (and whether the -reshape- will start breaking down with large
data sets; it might or it might not). -reshape- appears to be using a
lot of I/O with explicit -use-, -save- and -merge- in the code; I
thought this would have been written in C or Mata -- there's a
reshape() function in Mata.
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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