"fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"

I am doing the (Vaporware.Maxima) C# front end for the experience and for my resume.  I am not getting paid to do it.  But I expect money in my next job after I have the experience in C#.  Actually I got started as a programmer by working as a volunteer data entry clerk and then they let me do some programming in Basic.  But I don't want to pressure myself since I am not getting paid to put up with that.  

R





 ------------Original Message------------
From: "Richard Hennessy"<rvh2007 at comcast.net>
To: "Raymond Toy" <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
Cc: "Stavros Macrakis" <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>, "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Sat, Jul-19-2008 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"

 ------------Original Message------------
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



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