On 11/23/11 9:36 AM, William Stein wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Moylan Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Subject: C compiler in Mathematica To: wst...@gmail.com <mailto:wst...@gmail.com> Hello Prof Stein, In your FoCM 11 article at http://modular.math.washington.edu/papers/focm11/focm11.pdf you mentioned "None of the Ma's has an optimizing compiler that converts programs written in their custom interpreted language to a- fast executable binary format that is not interpreted at runtime." However Mathematica 8's compiler does have this capability: Compile with the setting CompilationTarget -> "C" compiles and links to a native machine code dynamic library (http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/CompilationTarget.html).
Neat! I just tried it out in MMA 8 and the fractal example from the documentation above seems to work pretty well.
You might forward back to them that there is a grammar typo in the last sentence on that page. "Note that this is an image to interact with the picture you need to evaluate the commands:" should have a semicolon or period somewhere in there.
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