Re: binary notebook
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg119061] Re: binary notebook
- From: peter lindsay <pl0 at me.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 06:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
I hope not. On 20 May 2011, at 11:37, ibmichuco wrote: > 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 >