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Re: st: still for Stata 14: graphs without preserve and restore
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: still for Stata 14: graphs without preserve and restore
Date
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:16:39 +0200
I think it can be an excelent idea: it tends to make code much more
readable and thus easier to maintain and debug. Less bugs is in
everybodies interest. I would certainly recommend this strategy for
people programming user written graphics commands (I do so all the
time). For most sample sizes the slow down is trivial. The fact that
it makes those programs harder for really big data is than a
legitimate trade-off, however unfortunate that may be for you.
-- Maarten
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:32 PM, László Sándor <[email protected]> wrote:
> My impression is that many -twoway- graphs are still made by
> destroying the data first (think of collapsing) and then restoring it.
> At current hard drive speeds and data sizes this is rarely a good
> idea.
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