On 8/28/02 1:54, Laura M. GIULIANO wrote
>Does anyone know whether the new dual processor Macs, with a gigabyte of
>RAM, will run Stata SE as well as a high-end PC with same RAM? Especially
>concerned about processes that are computationally intensive--w/really
>large data sets, really large matrices, etc.
It depends on whether Stata SE for the Mac is optimized for the Altivec
routines on the PowerPC. I know that the regular (Intercooled) Stata
interacts with Mac OS X in such a fashion that it doesn't exploit both
the processors on my machine. The best I can do is get it to hog 1
processor.
Bill
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