Subject: "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"
From: Richard Hennessy
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:51:03 -0400
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From: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
Cc: "Stavros Macrakis" <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>, "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Sat, Jul-19-2008 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"
Richard Hennessy wrote:
> "Much of Maxima's internals depend heavily on serialization, as they
> use global variables etc."
>
> Can you consider rewriting these internals.
>
Would you like to? Not really, unless I was being paid to do it. I would rather be doing math if I was not being paid to be a programmer.
> All of this is academic, since Lisp does not use multi-core properly. I don't know if that is going to change soon.
>
Depends on the implementation. SBCL is threaded. I think OpenMCL is too.
Yes, but other posts have said that the various Lisp's do not use both cores on a dual core pc.
Ray