Fast Binary IO for Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg38842] Fast Binary IO for Mathematica
- From: rsubr at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:21:18 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
I have written a mathlink program (Fast Binary IO - FBIO) that is
capable of reading binary data into mathematica lists and arrays.
On a dual 1GHz Mac running Mathematica 4.2, FBIO reads a 10MB file in
under a second (2.5 million 32bit integers per sec). It also supports
various data types, byte ordering, and other handy features.
FBIO is available for free under the BSD license.
You can find the current release at -
http://www.cfn.unimelb.edu.au/software/FBIO/
This release has been used internally for 2-3 months and has not
undergone sufficient real-world testing (only one user, on one
platform). Therefore your experiences, comments, bug reports, etc
are most welcome.
Cheers,
- Raja