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Re: Ordering broken on Windows, but not Mac

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  • Subject: [mg56873] Re: Ordering broken on Windows, but not Mac
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 01:45:55 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8 May 2005, at 14:26, DrBob wrote:

This would be the first ever example of this sort of thing in my 
experience. There used to be a visible difference between the behaviour 
of Split on the Mac and other platforms (Carl and I were involved in 
discovering this phenomenon that was never really explained)  but we 
attributed this to differences at operating system level, probably 
memory management or maybe even hardware. But this case would be 
differencing the issue is unpacking of packed arrays, something that is 
obviously in the Mathematica code. I have always believed that the 
basic Kernel code is written in C++ and then compiled for various 
platforms on which Mathematica runs which would mean that such a thing 
could not happen, but perhaps this is no longer the case (if it ever 
was the case).

Andrzej


> Ah. Here's what I get for the version at my machine:
>
> $Version
> 5.1 for Microsoft Windows (January 27, 2005)
>
> Same date as you, Bill.
>
> There's no reason Ordering can't be broken on Windows but not Mac, is 
> there? It definitely behaves differently with respect to packing its 
> results.
>
> Bobby
>
> On Sat,  7 May 2005 21:39:53 -0700, Bill Rowe 
> <readnewsciv at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On 5/7/05 at 10:19 PM, drbob at bigfoot.com (DrBob) wrote:
>>
>>>> Seems more likely that Ordering was broken in 5.1.1.
>>
>>> I suppose it does, at that.
>>
>> From my perspective, this doesn't seem more likely since I am using 
>> version 5.1.1. Or at least what was purported to be version 5.1.1. I 
>> did note at the time I downloaded this version and installed it, the 
>> string returned by $Version shows the version to be 5.1 with a more 
>> recent date than before.
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