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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 4.8.2 4.8.3 4.8.4
spwb Granier buckets 0.382 0.117 0.136 0.117 0.105 0.097 0.120
spwb Granier single 0.426 0.143 0.181 0.155 0.148 0.137 0.168
spwb Granier dual 6.850 5.090 5.954 5.509 6.181 5.158 5.250
spwb Sperry buckets 9.531 6.681 7.139 7.256 6.921 6.620 7.268
spwb Sperry single 10.208 6.726 6.689 7.210 6.820 6.789 7.621
spwb Sperry dual 18.375 12.623 12.412 13.090 12.724 12.790 15.282
spwb Sureau buckets 9.730 6.679 5.806 6.077 5.327 2.680 2.905
spwb Sureau single 10.565 6.555 5.947 6.481 5.408 2.718 3.018
spwb Sureau dual 19.013 15.222 13.566 14.561 13.509 10.639 11.573
growth Granier buckets 1.576 0.209 0.179 0.177 0.169 0.174 0.256
growth Granier single 1.762 0.254 0.219 0.246 0.225 0.236 0.314
growth Granier dual 8.468 5.805 5.305 5.500 5.687 5.735 6.289
growth Sperry buckets 17.586 15.088 14.140 15.051 15.084 14.942 17.610
growth Sperry single 16.947 15.025 14.281 15.679 15.318 14.657 20.996
growth Sperry dual 25.108 21.341 20.170 22.366 22.867 21.458 25.284
growth Sureau buckets 17.009 14.063 13.986 14.535 13.653 10.783 11.825
growth Sureau single 18.023 14.200 14.426 13.553 12.887 11.180 12.183
growth Sureau dual 26.702 22.414 24.041 21.116 20.494 20.467 22.507
fordyn Granier buckets 1.545 0.245 0.247 0.220 0.207 0.227 0.320
fordyn Granier single 1.783 0.292 0.296 0.270 0.246 0.271 0.370
fordyn Granier dual 8.168 6.134 5.821 5.656 6.158 5.728 6.456
fordyn Sperry buckets 18.099 16.756 15.161 14.597 14.693 16.044 16.247
fordyn Sperry single 18.595 16.675 15.030 14.640 14.524 16.274 16.349
fordyn Sperry dual 27.134 25.285 21.272 21.205 20.392 23.035 23.592
fordyn Sureau buckets 18.832 17.116 14.224 13.731 13.312 11.135 10.675
fordyn Sureau single 18.604 16.090 14.312 14.000 13.712 11.076 11.050
fordyn Sureau dual 26.987 28.045 22.149 21.737 22.640 19.623 18.702