1) use findit. If an ado-file is publicly available (including official Stata, web sites linked
to StataCorp and the SSC archive), findit will locate it, and you should not use it. StataCorp
also suggests that you not use English words for ado-file names, since they might want to use
them. That rule is sometimes hono(u)red.
2) Use Mata. It allows matrices of any size to overlay the data rather than necessarily existing
side-by-side with the data with "views". You cannot alter the precision with which matrix
elements are stored (which seems to be what you are asking for) but there is good reason for
that. StataCorp doesn't want to support a product that is capable of generating highly imprecise
computations if users ask for them.
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Florence wrote:
Hi, I have some technical questions about writing .ado files for
semi-commercial stuff: (1) how do
you make sure that the names you are giving the .ado files don't
conflict with other people's
program names? Is there some kind of standard? (2) Is there a way
to reduce the amount of space
that matrices take up in memory? I keep running out of space for my
matrices and I'm thinking
there should be a way to go over the official allocation of memory for
matrices, or at least to
reduce the amount of space they are taking up so that as the amount of
matrices in memory
increases, it does NOT take longer and longer times to process the
operations...
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