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Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01

From David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01
Date 2011-05-18 11:15 +0000
Organization Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
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On 17/05/2011 12:45, Chris Burdzy wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has advice as to why Mathematica 8.01 has extremely slow interface on my 1 year old Win 7 PC. I have the same Mathematica 8.01 installed on a 4 year old PC running Win XP and its interface is normally fast.
>
> By slow interface I mean that when I type "Plot[Sin[x], {x,1,10}]" on XP machine, the letters appear at the speed at which I type. On Win 7 machine, the letters appear on the screen at a speed *much* slower than human typing.
> Also, after a cell is executed, it takes a few seconds before Mathematica on Win 7 would accept any new input from the user.
> The computation in the background (loops) are faster on Win 7 (newer machine) than on XP (older machine), as expected.
>
> Did I unknowingly activate some sophisticated interface feature on Win 7 PC?
>
> Thanks, Chris
>
That sounds like a bug that was present in version 8.0.0 - are you sure 
the Win 7 machine is really running the latest version of Mathematica?

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

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slow interface for Mathematica 8.01 Chris Burdzy <burdzy77@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 11:45 +0000
  Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01 David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-05-18 11:15 +0000

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