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Re: calibrationhelper and inflation calibration

Posted by Peter Caspers-4 on Feb 24, 2016; 5:22pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/calibrationhelper-and-inflation-calibration-tp17316p17319.html

just to close the thread, the issue was solved by implementing a
suitable performCalculations() method in the client class

On 23 February 2016 at 19:24, Peter Caspers <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Andre,
>
> I just looked up this change (see below), it was introduced in 1.4. I
> remember when many observable notifications were sent to calibration
> helpers, they could cause a high CPU usage due to many (unnecessary)
> black price computations that were done directly in the update()
> method before. That's the background.
>
> Would it be possible for you to post the complete code of your
> calibration helper implementation, then we can see how to adapt it to
> the new base class ?
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
> Commit 114b6781a13eae2a99ce89e13387409bc703d323
> Author:     Luigi Ballabio <[hidden email]>
> AuthorDate: Mon Apr 15 11:55:23 2013 +0000
> Precedes:   QuantLib-v1.3 (76) Inherited CalibrationHelper from
> LazyObject (thanks to Peter Caspers).
>
>
>
>
> On 23 February 2016 at 16:11, André de Boer <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When moving to QuantLib version 1.7.1 we suddenly experience problems
>> with inflation calibration, error message: 'empty handle cannot be
>> dereferenced'.
>>
>> The class InflationCapHelper inherits from CalibrationHelper:
>>
>>   class InflationCapHelper : public QuantLib::CalibrationHelper {
>>   public:
>>    InflationCapHelper(const QuantLib::Date& startDate,
>>       QuantLib::CapFloor::Type type,
>>       const QuantLib::Size& years,
>>       const QuantLib::Period& intervalTime,
>>       const boost::shared_ptr<QuantLib::InflationIndex>& index,
>>       QuantLib::Rate strike,
>>       const QuantLib::Period& forwardStart,
>>       QuantLib::Real nominal,
>>       double marketPrice);
>>    virtual ~InflationCapHelper();
>>    virtual void addTimesTo(std::list<QuantLib::Time>& times) const;
>>    virtual QuantLib::Real modelValue() const;
>>    virtual QuantLib::Real blackPrice(QuantLib::Volatility volatility) const;
>>   private:
>>    boost::shared_ptr<InflationCapFloor> inflationDerivative_;
>>   };
>>
>> Compared to earlier versions of QuantLib we see that
>> calibrationhelper.hpp has changed and inherits now from lazyobject in
>> stead from observer and observable.
>>
>> How to overcome this issue?
>>
>> Thnx,
>> André
>>
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