Re: Alternative to DumpSave
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg116941] Re: Alternative to DumpSave
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 06:05:56 -0500 (EST)
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On 04/03/2011 08:38, Vince Virgilio wrote: > On Thursday, March 3, 2011 6:00:33 AM UTC-5, thomas wrote: >> Dear Mathgroup, >> >> Can anybody suggest an elegant alternative to the DumpSave[] command? > > SNIP > >> How can I achieve something equivalent accross systems? > > SNIP > > I export to WDX format to do this. See ref/format/WDX in the Doc Center. > > Vince > I did a little test, and found that the WDX file was almost 3 times the size of the mx file. more troublesomely, Time to Export vs DumpSave: 1.64 vs 0.03 Time to Import vs Get 0.172 vs 0.00 (i.e. negligible) The data contained a medium sized sparse array, plus some other data. I don't quite see why the WDX format should be any more expensive that DumpSave if the effort was put in! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk