AW: st: Speed problems using Stata 8.2

["Kroll, Lars Eric" <KrollE@rki.de>]

Thanks Daniel and Nick for your fast help.

I changed your Do-File a bit (see below)

After all there is one conclusion for me: Stata is affected by the OS but unexpected:
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PIII   800 19 sec Win NT 4 SP6
PIV    2,6  8 sec Win NT 4 SP6
PIV HT 2,8 26 sec Win XP!! 

No other Applications..

Thanks a lot,

Lars

Do File:
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capture clear
capture log close
 program define lnsim, rclass
         syntax [, obs(integer 1) mu(real 0) sigma(real 1)]
         drop _all
         set obs `obs'
         tempvar z
         gen `z' = exp(`mu' + `sigma'*invnorm(uniform()))
         summarize `z'
         return scalar mean = r(mean)
         return scalar Var  = r(Var)
    end

display  "Start: `c(current_time)'"
quietly simulate "lnsim, obs(1000)" mean=r(mean) var=r(Var), reps(10000)
display  "Stop: `c(current_time)' "
clear

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