| Feature | M7 Baseline | M8 Improvement | |---------|-------------|----------------| | SORT (10M rows) | 12.4 sec | 11.1 sec (-10%) | | PROC MEANS (100M rows) | 45.2 sec | 39.8 sec (-12%) | | DATA step hash join | 8.3 sec | 7.1 sec (-14%) | | SQL join (50M x 10M) | 2.4 min | 1.9 min (-21%) |
After base M8 installation, apply these hotfixes (as of Q1 2024):
SAS 9.4M8 requires tighter URL domain validation. Notably, local is no longer a valid internal domain name; users must utilize localdomain or localhost . 3. Updated R Support
