Re: st: Problem with seed and bootstrap

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I find that -sort, stable- can easily double the time for a sort.  In most 
of my work, -sort-  is responsible for most of the time to run my do files 
(most data management tasks seem to involve sorting) and when working with 
files with hundreds of thousands or millions of observations, I'd definitely 
not want to trade off that speed.  I very rarely encounter the need for 
the -,stable- option.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Svend Juul" <SJ@SOCI.AU.DK>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: st: Problem with seed and bootstrap


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> Imagine that -sort ... , stable- was the default, but that you could
> avoid it with an -unstable- option. Can anybody imagine a situation
> where a user would benefit from the -unstable- option?
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