is maxima suitable for multiprocessor computations?



Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> partly because of the system issues (is there any free Lisp that 
> supports multiprocessing? if not, there's the messy matter of 
> interprocess communication).

SBCL support threads on x86 for some OSes.  CMUCL has green threads on 
x86 so that won't speed things up.  Openmcl might have threads---I'd 
have to look that up.  I think clisp might have some experimental code 
for threads.

Ray