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Re: Slow Version 4 Front End

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg18827] Re: Slow Version 4 Front End
• From: king at dircon.co.uk (Nigel King)
• Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:19:38 -0400
• Organization: Consultant
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Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de> wrote:

> Bob Stagat <stagat at mrcsb.com> schrieb:
> > I'm using Mathematica 4 on a PowerMac. When I was using version 3, 
if I
> > evaluated a cell that contained a very simple expression -- 2+2, 
say --
> > it would evaluate very quickly -- in some fraction of a second. 
Both
> > measured in CPU time, as evaluated by the kernel's Timing[] function, 
and
> > in wall clock time, as evaluated by the Front End's "ShowTiming" 
option.
> 
> [*** snipp ***]
> 
> On my computer, ppro200, linux, Mathematica 4.0  timing for 2+2 is 0.01s, 
reported
> by Timing and ShowTiming
On my PowerMac Mathematica 4.0 the calculation is usually instant. Infact that was a
problem I had with version 3 not all the time but sometimes. There seemed to be the
MacOS getting in the way somewhere.
Nigel King
> 
> 
> Es gruesst  Peter