I have tried on two different occasions this week to use version 2018.1, but its performance has not been great.
This most recent attempt, I installed only Designer, no predictive tools, to see if that would help, and it did not. From the time I double-click the icon to open Alteryx, to the time it's actually usable, is just over 4 minutes, whereas it used to open in a matter of seconds. Once it's launched, there's a delay in running workflows (I click run, and it's about 10-15 seconds later that it actually starts processing), and once the workflow has finished, I can see in the worklog that the workflow finished in 0.9 seconds, but it's about a minute after that when the window pops up to inform me the workflow has completed, and I can't interact with anything until that window appears. When I'm building flows, dropping tools onto the canvas and whatnot, that all seems to run smooth as ever.
I checked the system requirements for the new version, and it's recommending 8GB RAM minimum (which I have), and a quad-core chip (unfortunately, I have dual-core). I can't see anything in the release notes that makes me think my setup, which ran Alteryx just fine prior to this update, would now struggle to run it, though I may be mistaken. It's not like I'm running an ancient set up here, though. Has the engine really changed enough that a dual-core processor is going to severely hamper my performance?
I had a co-worker try as well, and his results were about the same. Are we going to miss out on updates now unless we can convince our IT peeps to get us new RAM and Processors, or is there something we're overlooking here? Any thoughts or insight are much appreciated!
