Re: st: Re: St: Slow STATA

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

At 11:00 AM 10/18/2004 -0400, Wagner, Joseph wrote:


> exceeded memory limits using exact(1); try again with larger #; see help
> tabulate for details
> r(911);
Yesterday morning at 10:30 I gave this command:

tabi 29 41 44 3 0 \ 20 50 45 5 1 \ 19 44 51 7 0 \ 9 38 56 12 0, exact(9)

The good news is that I never got the above error message.  The bad news is 
that, 20 hours later, I still didn't have an answer either, so I killed the 
job.  Whether this amount of time reflects

(a) remaining inefficiencies in Stata's algorithm
(b) this is a really difficult problem even for a program with a good algorithm
(c) suboptimal settings on my end

I really don't know.  I suppose if you are patient you may eventually get 
an answer.  But, if the speed issue can't be addressed (and perhaps even if 
it can) I personally would go with some of the other options that have been 
proposed.

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