Mathematica output that slow???
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- Subject: [mg61138] Mathematica output that slow???
- From: Kevin Towles <kbt22 at drexel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Greatings all, I am having trouble writing to output files from Mathematica. Actually doing the output is trivial, but the time it takes to complete the operation seems quite slow. Perhaps I should describe how I use the Write[] function. Basically at the beginning of the program I open a file to write to with OpenWrite[]. Then my program carries out a couple hundred calculations and writes one line to the outputstream and repeats, a couple hundred more calcs and another one line write. Finally, when the program is complete I Close[] the output file. My problem is that in writing files that are tens of thousands of lines long, the process seems quite slow compared to its Fortran counterpart. Is there a better way to write like this in Mathematica (by better I mean faster). :) Thanks for any help, Kevin Towles