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Re: st: regexr string function very slow in Stata13


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: regexr string function very slow in Stata13
Date   Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:28:48 +0000

Depends what the question is, really. But you're showing that Stata 13
is slower at the same job than Stata 12. That's, I guess, an undesired
side-effect of rewriting string functions to cope with long strings,
even if you don't have long strings.
Nick
[email protected]


On 13 December 2013 10:20, Nicola Tommasi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
> On my computer they are installed Stata12 and Stata13, but regexr function
> run very slowly in Stata13. Here a log file
> Any idea?
>
>
>
> . count;
> 730649
>
> . di "`c(stata_version)' - `c(os)' - `c(osdtl)' - `c(machine_type)' -
> `c(processors)'";
> 13.1 - Windows - 64-bit - PC (64-bit x86-64) - 4
>
> . timer on 1;
>
> . gen var2 = regexr(var1,"<[^<>]+>","");
>
> . timer off 1;
>
> . timer list 1;
>    1:     54.88 /        1 =      54.8830
>
> . timer on 2;
>
> . replace var2 = regexr(var2,"<[^<>]+>","");
> (730649 real changes made)
>
> . timer off 2;
>
> . timer list 2;
>    2:     54.14 /        1 =      54.1400
>
>
>
>
>
> . count;
> 730649
>
> . di "`c(stata_version)' - `c(os)' - `c(osdtl)' - `c(machine_type)' -
> `c(processors)'";
> 12.1 - Windows - 64-bit - PC (64-bit x86-64) - 4
>
> . timer on 1;
>
> . gen var2 = regexr(var1,"<[^<>]+>","");
>
> . timer off 1;
>
> . timer list 1;
>    1:      1.43 /        1 =       1.4300
>
> . timer on 2;
>
> . replace var2 = regexr(var2,"<[^<>]+>","");
> (730649 real changes made)
>
> . timer off 2;
>
> . timer list 2;
>    2:      0.49 /        1 =       0.4860
>
>
>
>
> --
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