Leo wrote:
> * Robert Dodier (2006-12-22 23:21 -0700) said:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> On 12/22/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's just very big, that's all. I haven't and don't plan on
>>> creating interfaces to all the functions. Eigenvalue/eigenvector
>>> and SVD seem useful, so I've done those.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it can be a share or contrib package, but I'm not even sure
>>> it should be checked into maxima at all.
>>>
>> If you mean some or all of LAPACK -- yes, I believe it should be
>> committed to cvs.
>>
>
> Is this similar to what http://matlisp.sourceforge.net/ does?
>
Functionally, yes, this would be similar. The difference is in
implementation. matlisp uses FFI to call the routines. What's
happening in maxima is translating the Fortran code to Lisp and running
that. It won't be as fast as matlisp, but should be reasonable, if you
have a Lisp compiler that generates machine code.
Ray