Re: st: Slow STATA

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 04:26 PM 10/11/2004 -0400, Wagner, Joseph wrote:
> I have had trouble running a series of simple exact tests.  Whenever my
> tables go beyond 2x2 to tables such as the example below, STATA grinds to a
> virtual halt.  I waited a half hour before pressing the "break" button.
I just found a great way to speed this up if you haven't tried it already: 
Get the Oct. 6 update to the Stata executable.  According to whatsnew, 
"tabulate and tabi with the exact option are now significantly faster; see 
help tabulate."

Stata isn't lying: The same command that took 2 hours 40 minutes with the 
old executable only took around 20 minutes with the new one (although I 
still wouldn't do that sort of thing routinely unless I definitely needed it.)

If you already have done the update and it is still intolerably slow -- 
then get a new machine I guess.

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