Subject: "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"
From: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:46:38 -0400
Richard Hennessy wrote:
> Any chance of Maxima or some Lisp implementations soon being able to use core duo correctly (e.g. multi-threading)? My PC has 2 cores and Maxima never uses more than %50 of the available CPU time. I have written screen savers that use %100 percent but who cares about that. I don't use them. Why fry my CPU?
SBCL supports threads. I think openmcl does too. Maxima doesn't use
any threads so I don't know what benefit you might see, if any.
Ray