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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