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Re: st: Too many macros, but I create 1!
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James Sams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Too many macros, but I create 1!
Date
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:01:52 -0600
I have tried this. It is not particularly helpful because the error is in an
internal command that trace does not output from.
On Wednesday 05, December 2012 16:46:53 William Buchanan wrote:
> Have you tried running your program with -set trace on-? It might provide
> some more useful information to you about where things are going wrong.
>
> HTH,
> Billy
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 16:28, James Sams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a program that drops into mata, generates a row vector, converts it
> > to strings and then sends to stata as a macro. The macro it generates is
> > about 400,000 characters long, with about 62,000 individual entries, well
> > within the limits of stata-12 mp 8 core edition. Here is some test code
> > that shows what is going on and mimics the attributes of my data.
> >
> > program test_case, rclass
> >
> > mata {
> >
> > indexes = 50000
> > for (i=1; i<=61611; i++) {
> >
> > indexes = indexes, i+indexes[1]
> >
> > }
> > cols(indexes)
> > indexes = strofreal(indexes)
> > indexes = invtokens(indexes)
> > strlen(indexes)
> > st_local("indexes", indexes)
> >
> > }
> > return local indexes `indexes'
> >
> > end
> >
> > And when I run it:
> >
> >
> > . test_case
> >
> > 61612
> > 381283
> >
> > too many macros
> > r(920);
> >
> > I'm certainly not generating too many macros. Either st_local or return
> > is, as far as I can tell. Thoughts on what I should be doing?
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