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| From | "Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Re: insheet multi threading |
| Date | Mon, 2 May 2011 13:24:05 +0900 |
Argyn Kuketayev wrote: why isn't -insheet- command multi-threaded in Stata/MP? it takes a lot of time to read my data sets in CSV format. It's clearly NOT disk bound, because I know that copying file is much faster than loading them into Stata. One of CPU-core is 100% loaded, wile others are idle, i.e. parsing is taking all the time. Then why isn't is parallelized? cheers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ultimately, StataCorp can speak for itself, but my initial guess is that parallelizing other things first is considered a better investment of developers' efforts. Are circumstances such that you can have Stata convert your CSV files to Stata format overnight? I'm assuming that Stata won't spend much time parsing its own file format the next morning when you go to use the datasets. Joseph Coveney * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/