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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: why SAS ?
From:       "David L. Cassell" <cassell.david () EPAMAIL ! EPA ! GOV>
Date:       2003-10-31 18:06:20
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Zalek Bloom <ZalekBloom@HOTMAIL.COM> replied:
> I am only learning SAS - even I modified a few SAS mainframe programs.
> From my experience Easytrieve programs run much faster on mainframe
> computers than SAS programs, maybe because Easytrieve perform all
> process on raw files - SAS need to convert raw files to SAS format.

That's because your SAS code is so inefficient (I base this on your
code you presented in your other thread).

My experience is that Easytrieve reads flat files a lot slower than
SAS reads SAS files (or than SAS reads flat files), and that Easytrieve
does summarizations slower than SAS does.

David
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David Cassell, CSC
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mathematical statistician

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