On 2010-01-25 16:26 +0000, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems the best free CL for OSX is ccl?. SBCL is good but it does not
>> support thread well.
>
> It would be neat to have threads. Of course, much Maxima code is not
> compatible with threads because of its use of global (special) variables.
>
> What is your goal with threading? I'd think that there isn't much advantage
> to threading in the core mathematical components.
There are some CL packages that I use that require thread support. So I
have moved to CCL. Running maxima-5.19.2 on SBCL is noticeably slower
than maxima-5.20.1 on CCL for some basic operations I just did while
reading the manual. So I am impressed by maxima + CCL.
> On the other hand, it would be nice to have the front end run within Maxima
> itself, assuming that appropriate GUI tools are available. Is this
> something you're planning to work on?
It will be quite a while before I am confident with maxima :(
Although maxima is in every computer I use, come to think about it, I
hardly use it. I am in the EE field so I don't use much symbolic
computation.
> Thanks for your contributions!
Thanks.
Leo