This is not a question but a suggestion to dramatically speed up SAS (9.4 64bit TS1M3) on Windows 10 64bit:
If you run a longer SAS program (eg proc sort) on Windows 10, Windows' task manager (%windir%\system32\taskmgr.exe) will likely show high CPU and Memory usage of "Antimalware Service Executable: Windows Defender Antivirus Service"
Now do the following:
- Open Windows Defender > Virus & Threat protection settings > Exlusions
- Add "Process": C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe
and watch how CPU and Memory usage of "Antimalware Service Executable: Windows Defender Antivirus Service" decreases and the performance of SAS increases. On my system, this setting increased speed of SAS (datasteps and proc sort) 10 times.
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