Re: ReplacePart and Compile
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- Subject: [mg88159] Re: ReplacePart and Compile
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Szabolcs Horvát wrote: > Michael Weyrauch wrote: >> (More generally: Could it be annotated in the documentation, which >> functions can be compiled and which functions cannot be compiled. For me >> it is always an adventure to figure out a compiled version of a routine >> I need, because of this lack of basic information.) >> > > I agree, it is quite frustrating that this is not documented. The only > doc page I could find about this is here: > > http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/kernel/Symbols/System/Compile.html > > (Note that this is for Mathematica 3, not Mathematica 6.) > > Unfortunately it seems that WRI is not putting too much effort into > developing Compile[] any more. It is not being taught to compile new > functions, and its bugs are not fixed. > Perhaps it was a bit too harsh to say that "its bugs are not being fixed". To be fair (and to avoid flames), I will note that this is the particular problem that I know about: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/40d55fa35605b76d/fcbef0b29723ef15 Of course these kinds of problems are probably difficult to avoid, because the solution involves keeping track of which functions have side effects and which don't.