Maxima/Ecl on 32-bit machine cannot evaluate "apply(union, listify({{..}}))"



On 9/3/08, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:

>  We stopped using xreduce for big unions, since for some our applications
>  it had a big effect --- 5 hours instead of 1 hour where you need to do a lot
>  of experimentations is not good.

By the way, it sounds like you are working on some sizeable problems.
I think that is terrific. I am glad to hear that you are using Maxima for
some heavy-duty computing. We probably should try to collect links to
such applications on the web site.

best

Robert Dodier