Hey folks,

For those of you using the SAV DSC, I ran some informal benchmarks
on my laptop with the 4.0 SAV DSC. The increase in performance is
fantastic...

Read Performance
Dataset: 71,260 Records by 393 Variables
Test: Population of 1 table (marriage by education)
(multiple tables should be similar as only single pass thru data)
SAV DSC – 15 secs***

Write Performance
Test 1
Records Processed 6581
Variables 264
Process Records Time
RDB2SAV v3.1 - 2 min 17 sec (47 recs/sec)
RDB2SAV v4.0 - 0 min 18 sec (355 recs/sec)***

Test 2
Records Processed 71260
Variables 393
Process Records Time
RDB2SAV v3.1 - 53 min 21 sec (22 recs/sec)
RDB2SAV v4.0 - 5 min 17 sec (224 recs/sec)***

Best,
Jamey