Greetings! First let me preface this by saying that maxima is more
than fast enough for my needs, and that I haven't as yet fully
explored all its functionality. But I did notice the discussion on
bignums, and how gcl/maxima can now benefit from the enhanced
performance offered by gmp. My questions:
1) Could maxima realistically benefit from using optimized blas
routines, as does octave?
2) Could maxima realistically benefit from using MPI and running over
a cluster?
Obviously, the answer to 1 and 2 could only be yes with a problem size
much much larger than anything I personally have seen so far. I'm
just interested if any other users have seen such large problems.
Separately
3) Is there any way to use gcl as a stand-alone compiler, making object
files which can be linked with fortran and C object files into the
final executable? It seems as though the way to use gcl to make a
stand-alone program such as maxima is rather by dumping its memory
image or some such after loading the maxima lisp source.
Take care,
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Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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