64-bit Maxima/Lisp ??



On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Henry Baker wrote:
> Is there a true 64-bit Common Lisp implementation today?  Is there a 
> 64-bit Maxima that runs on it?
Yes, 64-bit sbcl. It compiles maxima fine (tested on 64-bit SUSE, works 
OK).

> Also, I have a 3-core CPU.  Does Lisp and/or Maxima take advantage of 
> any of this processing power today?
No. Computer-algebra algorithms are difficult to parallelize. Nobody has 
done this in maxima.

Andrey