Re: Tilting at Windmills?
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- Subject: [mg62127] Re: Tilting at Windmills?
- From: p.ramsden at imperial.ac.uk
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:31:30 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Matt,
Someone who knows about that sort of thing will be able to help out with your concerns about memory (though my guess, like yours, is that it's dynamically allocated and that's that!) I just wanted to talk about your cobweb algorithm itself; forgive the liberty.
In general, it's best to avoid iterating through lists in Mathematica where possible. I do cobweb diagrams in Mathematica a lot; here's the code I use, in case you find it helpful. (I've omitted your debugging and your sophisticated error-trapping on the input data.)
cobwebList[data_] := With[
{duplicatedData = Flatten[Transpose[{data, data}]]},
Transpose[{Drop[duplicatedData, -1], Drop[duplicatedData, 1]}]
]
Let me know how this fares, on your machine, when tested on your long list?
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