Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01
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- Subject: [mg118969] Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:15:55 -0400 (EDT)
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On 17/05/2011 12:45, Chris Burdzy wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has advice as to why Mathematica 8.01 has extremely slow interface on my 1 year old Win 7 PC. I have the same Mathematica 8.01 installed on a 4 year old PC running Win XP and its interface is normally fast.
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> By slow interface I mean that when I type "Plot[Sin[x], {x,1,10}]" on XP machine, the letters appear at the speed at which I type. On Win 7 machine, the letters appear on the screen at a speed *much* slower than human typing.
> Also, after a cell is executed, it takes a few seconds before Mathematica on Win 7 would accept any new input from the user.
> The computation in the background (loops) are faster on Win 7 (newer machine) than on XP (older machine), as expected.
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> Did I unknowingly activate some sophisticated interface feature on Win 7 PC?
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> Thanks, Chris
>
That sounds like a bug that was present in version 8.0.0 - are you sure
the Win 7 machine is really running the latest version of Mathematica?
David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk