The various algorithms need different amounts of memory for working space. Let be the number of parameters estimated and be the number of observations used in the model estimation.

For the simplex algorithm, the minimum working space (in bytes) needed is

for the interior point algorithm,

and for the smoothing algorithm,

For the last two algorithms, if you want to use preprocessing, an extra amount

is needed.

If sufficient space is available, the input data set is kept in memory; otherwise, the input data set is reread as necessary, and the execution time of the procedure increases substantially.