--- Johannes Geyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> @Nick: What is the difference between -total()- and -sum()- that
> makes the latter better than the other?
You can find that out by yourself if you knew that functions in egen
are stored in _g<functionname>.ado . So, if you type:
viewsource _gtotal.ado
and
viewsource _gsum.ado
You can see that -sum()- calls -total()-, leading to unnecesary
overhead, otherwise the two are the same.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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