Subject: Lisp - expanding space for Maxima in Windows
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:45 -0600
I'm late for the party, but anyway ...
> Barton Willis pisze:
>>
>> I can only guess, but these are my estimates of likely hoods of three
>> possibilities:
>>
>> (90%) Either the equations don't have a solution in terms of radicals, or
>> they do but
>> the solution is so huge that it is worthless (ill-suited for
>> numerical evaluation,
>> gives no particular insight to the physical problem, ...)
>>
>> (9.99%) A bug prevents Maxima from finding the solution.
>>
>> (0.01%) Expanding the available memory will allow Maxima to find a useful
>> solution.
Agreed for the most part here. I will add that GCL (default on Windows)
seems to use more memory for the same purpose than other Lisp
implementations, so maybe compiling Maxima with another Lisp
(e.g. Clozure CL) would work better. Just a wild guess.
FWIW
Robert Dodier