Size of .mx files
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg65221] Size of .mx files
- From: kalymereau at yahoo.fr
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:40:44 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Group I have a list of complicated expressions that I save in a .mx file. The size of this file is about 1.3Mb Since I had to exchange these expressions with a colleague who is working on a different system, I have also exported these expressions to a text file (with Save) that takes about 2.5 Mb. If I read the text file with Get and if I resave the expressions with DumpSave I get a second .mx file that is now 6.3Mb ! This is not very important since I checked that the two different .mx files contain the very same expressions, but I would like to understand why the sizes are so different ? I have also observed that redoing again the same .mx->text->.mx procedure from the 6.3Mb file I get a third file of the same size (6.3Mb) ! So the first file seems to be peculiar but I don't know why. Thanks