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Re: Re[2]: [S] Possible Statistical Enhancements to S-PLUS

To: jxs@dor.kaiser.org
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [S] Possible Statistical Enhancements to S-PLUS
From: "Patrick Connolly" <PConnolly@grunt.marc.cri.nz>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:55:14 +1200 (NZST)
Cc: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu (Snews)
In-reply-to: <9803308912.AA891291964@dor.kaiser.org> from "jxs@dor.kaiser.org" at Mar 30, 98 01:00:19 pm
Reply-to: "Patrick Connolly" <PConnolly@grunt.marc.cri.nz>
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According to jxs@dor.kaiser.org:
   
|> I agree completely with the above statement about the slowness of v.4. I 
|> also stick to v. 3.3 for Windows. Still the Unix version 3.4 (which I 
|> run on a Sparc20) is much better. For my laptop (where I use the Windows 
|> version) I am looking forward to the Linux version. Any news about that?
|> 
|>      I don't agree with the above statement. It depends on the system you 
are 
|>      using. If you run Windows NT, the V4 runs much better than the v3.3. Of 
|>      cause, you need a powerful machine. I have pentium pro 200 and 256MB. I 
|>      think 32MB is too little and you need to get more, then you will be 
happier 
|>      with the V4.

I too have tried V4 and NT on a pentium pro 200 and 256MB with two
processors and not a lot of users, but it is still far slower than
V3.4 on a 40Mhz unix machine (that's forty, not four hundred).

On the same machine, Excel and Word take about 2 seconds to start.  S4
takes more than 20 seconds!  Even then, it won't run in two
directories simultaneously which is something I have a wont and want
to do nearly all the time.  The latter might well be a limitation of
the OS rather than S4 itself.

Patrick

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