New in 8.0: Core Language
Built on powerful and elegant principles, the core
Mathematica language provides a uniquely deep and rich programming language that scales from rapid prototyping to large high-performance systems. Version 8.0 adds syntax-free linguistic input as a radical and innovative approach to programming. It also delivers many important performance features, such as automatic code generation, multicore parallelization, shared library linking, and GPU integration.
(
at beginning of input) — use free-form linguistics to generate
Mathematica output
(
Ctrl+) — enter free-form linguistics for conversion to inline
Mathematica input
WolframAlpha — get results in many possible forms from Wolfram|Alpha
Compile — increase speed of computations by compiling to native code
CompilationTarget — an option that specifies the target runtime for the compiled function, including C code
RuntimeAttributes — an option that specifies the
Listable attribute for the compiled function
Parallelization — an option that specifies whether a compiled function should run in parallel
LibraryFunctionLoad — load a function from a shared library into
Mathematica
LibraryFunction — a function that calls into a shared library
LibraryFunctionInformation — information on a library function
LibraryFunctionUnload,
LibraryUnload — unload functions and libraries
FindLibrary,
$LibraryPath — find libraries resolving system-specific file extensions
CUDAInformation — list all CUDA device information
CUDAImageConvolve — convolve images with specified kernel
CUDAFunctionLoad — load a user-defined function to run on a GPU using CUDA
OpenCLInformation — list all OpenCL device information
OpenCLFunctionLoad — load a user-defined function to run on a GPU using OpenCL
Export — export a
Mathematica-compiled function into C code
CCodeGenerate — export a
Mathematica-compiled function into C code
ToCCodeString — convert a symbolic C expression into a string of C code
CreateExecutable — create an executable from C code
CreateLibrary — create a library from C code
CreateScheduledTask — create a task to perform timed evaluations
RunScheduledTask — schedule and run a task to perform timed evaluations
ConditionalExpression — represent an expression that is valid when a condition is satisfied
Assert — test an assertion
$AssertFunction — specify a function to apply to assertions that fail
Performance Improvements in Parallel Computing
Parallelize (modified) — performance improvements, automatic distribution of definitions
LaunchKernels (modified) — kernel-launching performance improvements
DistributeDefinitions (modified) — definition-distribution performance improvements
