On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:37:20PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That said, there are numerous optimizations that are likely to > > have real benefit, that we should consider implementing as time > > goes on. The ones that I've come up with so far are below. > > They're roughly in order of increasing difficulty and benefit, > > and each one tends to depend on the previous. > > It's pretty clear that my wilder ideas on optimization just > exposed my ignorance of the structure of statistical > computations. Oh well. I'll work on the optimizations that > definitely make sense and we can think about whether anything > more ambitious is worthwhile.
I think what you said about the map/reduce model made a lot of sense, though it would be a lot of work and results from such an approach would not typically be identical to those from an analogous procedure executed without the map/reduce method. -Jason _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
