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Date: Sun 27-Jul-1989 23:36:48 From: Unknown Subject: Mathematica Performance? - - For those Cube users with the beta version of how's the performance? I've heard Mac II users complain that they don't have enough memory to do useful calculations. Is this a problem on the Cube? How about speed, and the user interface? Thanks, -Barry Merriman University of Chicago, Dept. of Math >From: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit)
Date: Sun 28-Jul-1989 14:39:47 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Mathematica Performance? In article <4697@tank.uchicago.edu> barry@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: >For those Cube users with the beta version of >Mathematica: > how's the performance? > >I've heard Mac II users complain that they don't have enough >memory to do useful calculations. Is this a problem on >the Cube? How about speed, and the user interface? Memory is a problem in the 0.9 version, because it doesn't seem to get managed properly. Large computations tend to make Mathematica freeze up completely. The only remedy I have found is to locate the process in a Terminal window, kill it, and start over. It's no faster than the Mac II version at present. Saving a file, in particular, is interminably slow. The user interface is incomplete, but seems to be coming along ok. I'm waiting to see what 1.0 will be like.
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