Computing time estimates

Miquel De Cáceres (EMF-CREAF)

2025-07-14

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