Math Forum / Math Software / SAS / October 2008

recently I installed sas (9.1.3 sp4) on ubuntu and I felt that it is slower
in some cases.
for this reason I tried to install the same version via wine on linux and I
found that sas on wine is faster than the same one on linux itself. for
example the following sas code:

proc iml;
x=j(10000000,1,.);
call randgen(x,'normal');
y=x[:];
quit;

windows:
real 1:40
cpu  1:30

ubuntu:
2:05
1:72

even the I/O in wine is faster
for example creating data:

windows:
36.02
34.48

ubuntu:
47:60
47:38