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RE: st: Re: insheet multi threading
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"Schaffer, Mark E" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Re: insheet multi threading
Date
Mon, 2 May 2011 16:16:13 +0100
Well ... I took Argyn's statement to be a bit of poetic licence. The unpoetic way of asking the question is: -insheet- and -infile- are commonly used commands (at least judging by how often they show up on Statalist in one way or another); can they be parallelised? Seems like a reasonable and Statalist-worthy question.
--Mark
> -----Original Message-----
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> Maarten buis
> Sent: 02 May 2011 16:06
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> Subject: Re: st: Re: insheet multi threading
>
> --- Argyn Kuketayev wrote:
> > I'm sure everyone does it daily: read CSV files.
>
> This is statement that is very easy to falsify: it only needs
> one Stata user who does not do it daily. I am such a Stata
> user: I use Stata often and I have been doing so for some
> time, and over the last 8 years or so that I have used Stata
> I can remember only three or four instances that I have read
> a CSV file.
>
> I am not trying to be mean --- well, actually I am, but that
> is not the point --- the point is that we often tend to
> generalize our experience to the rest of the world.
> Even in the very homogenous group of Stata users or the even
> more homogenous group of statalist subscribers, that is
> usually not the case. People use Stata in surprisingly
> different ways, so what is very important to you can easily
> be completely irrelevant to others. So I would be very
> careful when making such statements and check with different
> people from different disciplines and industries before
> making such claims.
> The easier alternative is to just not make such statements.
>
> -- Maarten
>
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