Mark Jordan (otherwise known as the SAS Jedi) has made his WUSS appearance with multiple papers. One being, DS2 is a SAS-proprietary programming language available in Base SAS 9.4+ and in SAS Viya. The language is designed for simple, safe parallel processing using an intriguing combination of SQL and traditional DATA step syntax. The paper (attached) discusses the benefits of converting a base SAS DATA step to DS2 when the DATA step process is CPU bound, and how amazing processing speeds can be achieved by running the same process in CAS on SAS Viya.
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