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speed up"; for example
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Barton
maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 09/04/2009 11:14:25 AM:
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> [Maxima] How to speed up programs by compiling
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> Richard Hennessy
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> How can you make a program run faster by compiling? I have tried to
> compile functions in pw.mac and it does not improve speed even
> though I thought it should. For example I wrote a simple polynomial
> integrator program which I was going to put into pw.mac because
> I thought an integrate program that can only do polynomials would be
> faster than one that has to consider all possibilities but when
> I test it it is still slower the Maximas' integrate. I tried
> compiling it and got no improvement. What am I doing wrong?
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> Rich
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