re: st: Stata for the Macintosh News

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

> Chinh Nguyen wrote:
>
> Stata for Macintosh and the G5
> ------------------------------
>
> We've received many inquiries as to if and when we will provide 
> support for
> the G5 and/or offer a 64-bit version of Stata.  The simple answer is 
> when the
> tools are available for us to do so.
>
> Our developer tools do not currently offer optimization support for 
> the G5.
> We have however investigated Apple's developer tools and saw little to 
> no
> gains when optimizing for the G5.  Stata already runs quite quickly 
> due to
> the faster processing speed of the G5 and its two floating-point units.
>
> A 64-bit version will be forthcoming as soon as our developer tools 
> allow us
> to produce one.
Nice additions to Stata for OS X.

If there is no drastic _loss_ in optimization, the gain in use of more 
RAM would seem worth using Apple's developer tools. If you use a set of 
developer tools whose business interests are not primarily Apple's, 
what timetable are we talking here? Wasn't this the point of Apple 
providing these tools at no cost? I must be missing something here.

I've been slogging through learning R recently to use NMLE/LME that is 
not available in StataSE, and I can't help sneaking back in for all 
other problems I have to solve or graph. Sigh!

-Dave

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