Maxima always runs inside lisp.
load Maxima.
If you want to load lisp source, type to_lisp();
and you are in lisp.
If you want to write a lisp function that calls (say) ratsimp, you can call
it by
($ratsimp .....)
RJF
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Hennessy
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:26 PM
> To: fateman at EECS.Berkeley.EDU; 'Michel Talon'
> Cc: 'Maxima List'
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] ansi gcl in rpm
>
> I have gcl but being totally new to lisp I would like to know
> how I can run Maxima inside lisp. My lisp is installed in a
> different directory than Maxima. How could I write something
> at the top level that would execute the Maxima source?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
> Retraction, the power series is a better way to compute
> bessel_j than the taylor function as I said in another email.
> It takes very long and is consistent with Maxima. Does
> anyone know a way to speed taylor up?
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
> To: "'Michel Talon'" <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>
> Cc: "'Maxima List'" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tue, Jun-10-2008 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] ansi gcl in rpm
>
> unless people are being very careful in how they use
> optimize declarations
> in the different lisp implementations,
> it is possible that a factor of 2 to 10 speedup remains to be
> obtained.
>
> Care in this generally requires using profiling tools to see
> where time is
> spent on particular calculations of interest,.
>
> More important is your observation that one lisp or another has bugs!
>
> RJF
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> > [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Michel Talon
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:26 PM
> > To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Maxima] ansi gcl in rpm
> >
> > Fabrizio Caruso wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > gcl is way faster than the other lisps
> > > for Maxima (my eee pc runs gcl-Maxima
> > > faster than sbcl-Maxima on
> > > my dual core clocked 2.2Ghz!)
> > >
> >
> > I have not observed that. I have seen gcl-maxima faster
> > on a few problems, but generally cmucl-maxima seems faster
> > for me (i run that on Ubuntu and FreeBSD). Indeed
> > i have seen maxima-sbcl consistently much slower so i don't use it
> > any more (worse i have seen large bugs with this lisp).
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michel Talon
> > _______________________________________________
> > Maxima mailing list
> > Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> > http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Maxima mailing list
> Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>
> _______________________________________________
> Maxima mailing list
> Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>