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21 Efficiency Tuning

This chapter provides a grab bag of techniques for optimizing Stan code, including vectorization, sufficient statistics, and conjugacy. At a coarse level, efficiency involves both the amount of time required for a computation and the amount of memory required. For practical applied statistical modeling, we are mainly concerned with reducing wall time (how long a program takes as measured by a clock on the wall) and keeping memory requirements within available bounds.