On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Oliver Kullmann
<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> (The point is that actually for us Maxima is only
> a sort of a specification language, where emphasise
> is on readability and correctness. But on the other hand,
> once you have your functions, then you want to run
> them on some not completely trivial examples.
> Now typically for our examples, a very simple
> program written in C++ needs seconds, while the
> "same" Maxima program (basically the same effort
> to write (and debug(!)) it) needs days.
In the interest of identifying optimizations which should make
such programs feasible in Maxima, I would be interested
to see an example.
best
Robert Dodier