Computing time estimates

Miquel De Cáceres (EMF-CREAF)

2026-10-16

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 (32 GiB memory and Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 185H × 22) with Ubuntu Linux OS 26.04.1 LTS.

Table of computational times

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

function	transpirationMode	soilDomains	rhizosphereOverlap	5.2.0
spwb	Granier	buckets	total	0.027
spwb	Granier	single	total	0.048
spwb	Granier	dual	total	2.706
spwb	Sperry	buckets	total	1.095
spwb	Sperry	single	total	1.509
spwb	Sperry	dual	total	4.306
spwb	Sureau	buckets	total	0.395
spwb	Sureau	single	total	0.759
spwb	Sureau	dual	total	6.742
growth	Granier	buckets	total	0.026
growth	Granier	single	total	0.036
growth	Granier	dual	total	2.553
growth	Sperry	buckets	total	2.186
growth	Sperry	single	total	2.487
growth	Sperry	dual	total	5.609
growth	Sureau	buckets	total	1.517
growth	Sureau	single	total	1.882
growth	Sureau	dual	total	7.925
fordyn	Granier	buckets	total	0.067
fordyn	Granier	single	total	0.072
fordyn	Granier	dual	total	2.688
fordyn	Sperry	buckets	total	2.381
fordyn	Sperry	single	total	2.610
fordyn	Sperry	dual	total	5.857
fordyn	Sureau	buckets	total	1.718
fordyn	Sureau	single	total	2.038
fordyn	Sureau	dual	total	8.143