On 11/27/2018 12:54 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:46:59AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
SPV files contain results, in the form of pivot tables, charts, and
other objects. Loading one does not re-run analyses, but it does load
objects from disk only as they come into view, and it does take a little
bit of CPU to display them.
This explains what I was seeing, I'm sure. Charts can be the most
CPU intensive, which makes sense because something like a
scatterplot probably shows all the individual data points. Sounds
like the the problem I speculated about might not exist or only for
some modules (maybe
If so, I imagine there are limits on what PSPP can do to display some
SPO files?
SPO files are a separate question. I don't know if they have the same
underlying data model as SPV files. If not, they might be hard to deal
with. I need to investigate the ones I have before I can guess. But
I'm planning to get SPV files fine-tuned before I look at them.
That was a typo. IIRC SPO format superceeded text output and added
formatting; I'd be surprised if it wasn't some kind of rich text
like RTF. If its some homebrewed format, it might be a lot of work
to make it display properly. I suspect that if it was simple to
display SPO files, there wouldn't be any issue with current versions
of SPSS opening them. But that's just a pessimistic guess.
-Alan
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