Re: st: Re: St: Slow STATA

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 06:55 AM 10/19/2004 -0500, Richard Williams wrote:

> Yesterday morning at 10:30 I gave this command:
>
> tabi 29 41 44 3 0 \ 20 50 45 5 1 \ 19 44 51 7 0 \ 9 38 56 12 0, exact(9)
>
> The good news is that I never got the above error message.  The bad news 
> is that, 20 hours later, I still didn't have an answer either, so I killed 
> the job. ...
This looks like a bug. I tried it myself, and it seems to hang, with Stata 
apparently stuck in a loop (or a very long computation).  During that time, 
Stata is using 99% of processor time.

When you remove the -, exact(9) - , it finishes in no time.

-- David


David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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