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Re: Declaring variables

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg29924] Re: Declaring variables
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:56:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

there is *no* way to set the type of the value
of a symbol ! Mathematica is an untyped language.

Your statement "x must be a list" is not clear --
what must be a list ? The symbol x or it's value ?

Since Mathematica knows nothing about type definitions
it will not speed up your computation.

For CompiledFunction[] objects you can give types
and tensor degrees.

What will reduce your runtime ? This can't be sayed without
the programming code. A MathLink program will do it, if you just
do numerics. But a general hint is impossible.


Regards
  Jens

Etienne wrote:
> 
> I am trying to speed up a genetic algorithm and was wondering if there is an
> efficient way of declaring variables (e.g. x must be a list). Will it reduce
> my run time? If not, what will?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Etienne Ayotte-Sauvé