Computing time estimates

Miquel De Cáceres (EMF-CREAF)

2025-07-16

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 medfateland.

The results presented here were obtained using 3 months of simulation with the example watershed 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 medfate 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	21.743	13.303	7.780	7.878	8.156	5.805
spwb	Granier	single	28.205	21.361	13.876	14.477	13.512	11.119
spwb	Granier	dual	56.278	52.047	40.410	36.956	37.777	33.687
growth	Granier	buckets	45.589	31.272	19.963	17.741	17.420	15.259
growth	Granier	single	56.588	41.292	27.064	24.189	22.957	20.823
growth	Granier	dual	71.757	61.228	56.788	45.290	47.656	43.666