is maxima suitable for multiprocessor computations?

I disagree. Some algorithms like polynomial multiplication, can be mapped to multiple processors fairly easily.  Some lisps support parallelism with various levels of cost (OS process vs light-weight threads).

While the existing algorithms are mostly designed for serial execution, they may not be the most time consuming in particular processes.

Not all lisps support parallelism and not on all OSs on all hardware.
RJF

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On Nov 13, 2007 9:44 AM, Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim)** CTR ** <
vkonovalov at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> I wonder whether Maxima could benefit of having more than 1 processor on
> the system.
>

Not likely. The algorithms in Maxima were not designed to be parallelized.
The front ends (xmaxima etc.) and the plotting packages do run in separate
processes, so in theory could benefit from more than one processor, but I
doubt the benefit would be meaningful.

            -s
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