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Re: st: Too many macros, but I create 1!
From
William Buchanan <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Too many macros, but I create 1!
Date
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:46:53 -0800
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
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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?
>
> --
> James Sams
> [email protected]
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