Re: st: the memory footprint and execution speed of -mf_quadcross()-

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Maarten.

I think StataCorp has been proudly promoting Mata as a real
programming language for the last 8 years, so all of us who ever
touched it are "programmers".

Seriously, I am not sure why my expectation that fellow users who
coded up estimators before might know a thing or to about st_views
would be off. In any case, all of us had better things to do — and I
did contact tech support with some of my questions, yes.

Thanks again,

Laszlo

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:52 PM, László Sándor wrote:
>> PS: I must wonder about the usefulness of all my questions if they
>> attract few comments. Thanks for bearing with me anyway.
>
> Dealing efficiently with big data is an incredibly complex problem (as
> you seem to be finding out the hard way), to the extend that
> professional programmers are pretty much the only people who can say
> something meaningful about your questions. Professional programmers
> typically do other things than statistics (they program), and thus
> work with other pieces of software, and so they are not likely to be
> present on this list. The only exception would be the people that work
> at StataCorp. However, I observe that they choose to remain silent. I
> guess because any answer from them could be interpreted as an
> indication of what they might or might not be working on, and
> StataCorp has a strict policy against such public statements. I would
> consider that a fair enough argument, even though it is frustrating
> for you. You could try and contact StataCorp directly with your
> questions.
>
> -- Maarten
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