Re: st: -stylerules- updated on SSC

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

At 08:40 AM 4/14/2005 -0400, Michael Blasnik wrote:
> I just wanted to follow up to say that the rough estimate I provided of 10 
> -if `touse'- = 1 -preserve-/-restore- can be far off depending on the 
> proportion of values selected by the if statement and the relative width 
> vs. length of the dataset.  The time required
Thanks Michael and others.  I'm working with a dataset of a few thousand 
cases and I can't tell any difference whether I preserve or not.  But, 
suppose you had some monstrous data set - how much time would the 
preserve/restore options take?  Are we talking 5 seconds here, 5 minutes, 
or what?


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