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From: ags@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mathematica Performance?
Keywords: Mathematica
Message-ID: <3495@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 89 14:39:47 GMT
References: <4697@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ags@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Organization: Purdue University
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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.
-- 
Dave Seaman	  					
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu