binary notebook
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg119032] binary notebook
- From: ibmichuco <ibmichuco at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 06:37:12 -0400 (EDT)
Hi all, Would Wolfram consider an option to save notebook as a binary/ executable file? The file would still require the presence of a copy of a compatible version of Mathematica via, say, a library link. I can see that this feature would have three benefits: 1) The "nbx" file would be much faster, possibly much closer to that of a compiled fortran/c version, at least for similar numerical tasks. This would make Mathematica an excellent tool both in development and in production. 2) People are more willing to distribute propriety codes if they can maintain some kind of control over them. 3) You can send people several modules bundled in to a single file, and hopefully, due to the library links proposal, the file can still be reasonably small in size. Recently I have had to convert some of my codes (pure number crunching) that I had developed in Mathematica to f90 just to make some calculation practical and thought that this additional feature would have saved me considerable time. Regards, Michuco