Repeated calls to Mathematica process
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- Subject: [mg15705] Repeated calls to Mathematica process
- From: reveltd at leland.stanford.edu
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:54:21 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Greetings, I have an integral function which I need to maximize. The maximization procedure requires many evaluations of this function. The fastest way for me to evaluate this function is to integrate it symbolically once and then evaluate it repeatedly as the parameters change in the maximization routine. Since I have a large data set, I am using Gauss to maximize this function, and the Gauss procedure can call the Mathematica process. What I don't know how to do is to maintain the memory state of the Mathematica process as I move back and forth to Gauss. That is, I want to symbolically integrate the function once, then do some work in Gauss, and then come back to Mathematica to evaluate the function. But once I exit the mathematica process, I will lose the symbolic solution to my integral. In short, I want to treat the Mathematica process like an object (rather than a function) which performs the symbolic integration upon construction, remains in memory while I do other things, and then evaluates it whenever I message it. Short of reading and writing back and forth to files (which is expensive time-wise) is there any way to hold the memory state of a Mathematica process while I do the work in Gauss? Thanks David