Re: very slow Save[]s on Mathematica V7??
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- Subject: [mg96232] Re: very slow Save[]s on Mathematica V7??
- From: Igor Antonio <igorantonio at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:47:58 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 9, 4:33 am, congruentialumina... at yahoo.com wrote: > I used to do complicated graphics with V6 and I am sure Save[] did not > take this long. Here is more strange info on this. The last command > below is: "Import["http://exampledata.wolfram.com/usamap.zip";, > ImageSize -> Medium]" > > On V7 "% // ByteCount" gives 14792200 > On V6 the same command shows only 312?!?!? > > Does anyone know of a work-around for this annoying V7 problem? Franklin, Support for SHP files was added in V7. In version 6, you're just importing the list of filenames inside the zip file. With V7, Import expands the zip file, recognizes the SHP bundle, and Imports the map contained in the file. In[2]:= a = Import["http://exampledata.wolfram.com/usamap.zip";, ImageSize -> Medium] Out[2]= {"railroads.dbf", "railroads.prj", "railroads.shp", \ "railroads.shx", "states.dbf", "states.prj", "states.shp", \ "states.shx"} In[3]:= $Version Out[3]= "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (May 21, 2008)" ========================== ================= In[5]:= a = Import["http://exampledata.wolfram.com/usamap.zip";, ImageSize -> Medium]; In[6]:= Head@a Out[6]= Graphics In[7]:= ByteCount@a Out[7]= 15319544 In[8]:= $Version Out[8]= "7.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 11, 2008)" Igor