On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:18 AM, saratchand c chandrasekharan <
saratcchand at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> ...However maxima seems to be taking an inordinately long time solving
> them.
> ...I wish to know whether augmenting my hardware will result in better
> results
>
Unlikely. Maxima can't take advantage of multiple processors, and an Athlon
5600+ is a fast processor. It has a modest amount of cache (2MB); a bigger
cache would speed things up a bit. With 4GB, you are unlikely to be
thrashing. Even the fastest x86 with the fastest memory and largest cache
would only give you a small improvement (50%?), with a very high marginal
cost. Given that:
> When I use Maxima to solve for y in terms of x in the second of the above
> equations and substitute in the first equation, maxima is able to solve the
> resulting polynomial immediately.
>
it seems that the basic problem is that the solve/algsys algorithm is far
from optimal. I don't know if anyone is working on improving that.
-s