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Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? [message #9461 is a reply to message #9363]

Thu, 03 July 1997 00:00

Mirko Vukovic
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Registered: January 1996

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In article <33BBAA0E.CD4@sg1.cr.usgs.gov>,
Jonathan Rogness <rogness@sg1.cr.usgs.gov> wrote:
>
> mirko.vukovic@grc.varian.com wrote:
>>
>> I was at a local idl presentation (in the bay area) and was pretty
>> impressed with insight. It is indeed slow now, but wait 18 months,
>> and I bet the cpu's will start catching up.
>
> I'm not sure we should be congratulating RSI for writing some code that
> runs slowly on today's machines but, given future technology, might be
> usuable. Anybody can write code that's slow and inefficient; the trick
> is to write programs that are quick and useful!

Point well taken
>
> My only experience with Insight came last week, when we finally got the
> upgrade to v5.0. I was anxious to see if everybody's complaints had
> been accurate. I started IDL, started insight, and then tried to open
> one of the example projects. Almost two minutes later, nothing had
> happened and I killed the process off.
>
> This is running on a SGI Power Challenge supercomputer with 9
> processors, 640 MB of physical RAM and twice that in paging space. Now
> granted, there were (many) other users on the machine at the same time,
> but if it runs that slowly on this machine I have to believe that it's
> going to be more than 18 months before insight will run at a decent
> speed on, say, a Windows 95 machine.
>
> Jon

I run on windows95 and 133MHz pentium and got the examples going in 15-20
seconds.

Mirko

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		Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: Matt Phelps on Thu, 19 June 1997 00:00
		Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: Mirko Vukovic on Thu, 03 July 1997 00:00
		Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: David Theil on Thu, 03 July 1997 00:00
		Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: Jonathan Rogness on Thu, 03 July 1997 00:00
		Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: Mirko Vukovic on Wed, 02 July 1997 00:00
		Re: Anyone using insight, or idlde? By: Axel Schweiger on Tue, 01 July 1997 00:00

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