Re: Slow Version 4 Front End
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- 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