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Re: st: Memory during a merge
Bill,
Thanks for the reply. So if I understand you correctly, the observations
are brought in and then the non keep variables are deleted? If that is the
case the maximum memory use with keep() would be no different than from the
memory use without keep. Is this a correct interpretation?
Fred
At 08:48 AM 11/3/2006, William Gould, Stata wrote:
Fred Wolfe <[email protected]> asked about the implementation
of the -keep(<varlist>)- option of -merge-:
> Stata has a keep() option that limits the merging of data in the using data
> set to selected variables. My question is, Does Stata first bring all
of the
> using variables into memory or does it somehow drop the non-selected using
> variables before merging.
Stata does *NOT* bring in the entire using dataset and then merge;
it does bring in, one at a time, entire observations from the using
dataset. The basic loop is this
do until all of the using data is read
read *ONE* observation of the using dataset
does it merge?
record the keep() variables in the appropriate
observation in memory
end
-- Bill
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
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