Efficiency – who cares? [Software]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2017-02-15 15:26 (2922 d 17:50 ago) – Posting: # 17064
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Hi David,

❝ […] how efficient that would be […]



Who needs efficient software?
A friend of mine (in big pharma) had R-code for a large simulation study which completed overnight. The (US-based) company insisted in SAS (because SAS is “validated”…). SAS is poor in handling large datasets in RAM and starts to swap to the HD. Run-time was a couple of months. He had to buy another machine just to run the sim’s. Company was happy with that. Results were practically identical to what he already knew from R months earlier. :-D


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