Re: st: Stata 9: first impressions?

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

At 11:53 AM 5/5/2005 +0200, Jonathan Kaplan wrote:
> Just curious and surprised by the lack of  Stata 9 opinions/reviews-
> several small bugs are reported- but how is the new version actually?!
I'm curious about speed.  Has all this rewriting stuff in Mata made Stata 
noticeably zippier for some tasks?  If so, would your typical user-written 
routine run faster, or would it need to be rewritten in Mata as well?  In 
particular, is -gllamm- running faster - or can it likely be made to run 
faster by rewriting it for Stata 9?

If Stata 9 is faster, that might make it appealing even to people who don't 
care that much about the added features.

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