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Re: Size of .mx files

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg65231] Re: Size of .mx files
• From: Jon Harrop <usenet at jdh30.plus.com>
• Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:19:08 -0500 (EST)
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

kalymereau at yahoo.fr wrote:
> I have also observed that redoing again the same .mx->text->.mx
> procedure from the 6.3Mb file I get a third file of the same size
> (6.3Mb) ! So the first file seems to be peculiar but I don't know why.

The original file is probably sharing data by reference, which is not so
easily done in text format (e.g. by common subexpression elimination).

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html