Computing time estimates

Miquel De Cáceres (EMF-CREAF)

2026-02-27

About this vignette

The aim of this vignette is to provide users with a rough estimation of computing times for simulation models included in package medfate.

The results presented here were obtained using 1 year of simulation with the example data sets on a laptop (16 GiB memory and 11th Gen Inter Core I5 processor @ 2.40 GHz x 8) with Ubuntu Linux OS.

Table of computational times

Computational times were estimated using system.time(), are in seconds and are shown by package version.

function	transpirationMode	soilDomains	4.4.0	4.7.0	4.8.0	4.8.1	4.8.3	4.9.0	5.0.0
spwb	Granier	buckets	0.382	0.117	0.136	0.117	0.097	0.134	0.018
spwb	Granier	single	0.426	0.143	0.181	0.155	0.137	0.223	0.036
spwb	Granier	dual	6.850	5.090	5.954	5.509	5.158	8.914	4.263
spwb	Sperry	buckets	9.531	6.681	7.139	7.256	6.620	13.478	2.102
spwb	Sperry	single	10.208	6.726	6.689	7.210	6.789	13.529	2.122
spwb	Sperry	dual	18.375	12.623	12.412	13.090	12.790	23.679	6.765
spwb	Sureau	buckets	9.730	6.679	5.806	6.077	2.680	5.857	0.607
spwb	Sureau	single	10.565	6.555	5.947	6.481	2.718	6.052	0.717
spwb	Sureau	dual	19.013	15.222	13.566	14.561	10.639	18.987	6.720
growth	Granier	buckets	1.576	0.209	0.179	0.177	0.174	0.257	0.037
growth	Granier	single	1.762	0.254	0.219	0.246	0.236	0.363	0.054
growth	Granier	dual	8.468	5.805	5.305	5.500	5.735	9.360	4.155
growth	Sperry	buckets	17.586	15.088	14.140	15.051	14.942	24.665	9.802
growth	Sperry	single	16.947	15.025	14.281	15.679	14.657	24.559	9.847
growth	Sperry	dual	25.108	21.341	20.170	22.366	21.458	35.205	14.492
growth	Sureau	buckets	17.009	14.063	13.986	14.535	10.783	16.685	8.020
growth	Sureau	single	18.023	14.200	14.426	13.553	11.180	17.075	8.498
growth	Sureau	dual	26.702	22.414	24.041	21.116	20.467	36.420	14.379
fordyn	Granier	buckets	1.545	0.245	0.247	0.220	0.227	0.420	0.090
fordyn	Granier	single	1.783	0.292	0.296	0.270	0.271	0.545	0.098
fordyn	Granier	dual	8.168	6.134	5.821	5.656	5.728	11.312	4.155
fordyn	Sperry	buckets	18.099	16.756	15.161	14.597	16.044	24.664	9.790
fordyn	Sperry	single	18.595	16.675	15.030	14.640	16.274	24.484	9.781
fordyn	Sperry	dual	27.134	25.285	21.272	21.205	23.035	35.603	14.392
fordyn	Sureau	buckets	18.832	17.116	14.224	13.731	11.135	16.288	8.248
fordyn	Sureau	single	18.604	16.090	14.312	14.000	11.076	16.784	8.535
fordyn	Sureau	dual	26.987	28.045	22.149	21.737	19.623	31.448	13.996