MathLink and Sparse Matrices
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- Subject: [mg65742] MathLink and Sparse Matrices
- From: Jose Martinez <martinez at cs.utwente.nl>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:49:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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Hi there,
I have been working with Mathematica and Mathlink/C++ for awhile,
specifically in iterative numerical methods for Markovian processes.
So far, to pass information between Mathematica and C++ executables
I have been importing/exporting the matrices (sparse) which characterize
the process under study.
Do you know an easy way to pass a sparse matrix through Mathlink, as
with a regular matix, i.e. something like a GetSparseArray() function,
and avoiding exporting/importing to/from a file?
The matrices I am considering are about 100Mbyte in size (SparseArray).
And I have already tried to obtain the entries of the matrices as arrays
using ArrayRules(), but you need 10 times more memory than the size
of the matrix, for the conversion process.
many thanks in advance..
Jose M. Martinez
Ph.D. student, University of Twente, the Netherlands.