I have used Origin 7 for quite some time for simple data analysis and nonlinear curve fitting. I have recently been using Origin 8 and have found that Origin 8 is significantly slower. For example, I have timed the loading of the nonlinear curve fitting dialog and found that it takes more than a factor of 10 longer in Origin 8 than it did in Origin 7. As another example, when I have more than a few books of data (only a few hundred points each) in a project I find that simply opening another book takes a significant amount of time in Origin 8. Is there something that I am doing that is slowing the program down? Is there some way that I can switch back to Origin 7.5 using the license code I payed for for Origin 8?
Thanks for this info. I actually figured out the problem. For some reason all of the books that were being opened had thousands of columns in them, which was slowing everything down. Once I changed the book template to have a reasonable number of columns it worked fine.
why is Origin 8 so slow?
Posted - 08/21/2008 : 10:20:34 PM
