Maxima Lapack is very slow: 7 seconds versus 0.002 seconds in Julia.
Subject: Maxima Lapack is very slow: 7 seconds versus 0.002 seconds in Julia.
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 14:15:45 -0700
On 5/5/12 9:00 AM, Manuel Pedrinero rossetil wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> Thanks for the information about cffi, and for your work in matlisp.
>
> There are some projects to improve the port of sbcl to windows. Since
I understand that ccl works very well on windows, so why wait for an
improved port of sbcl?
> gcl lacks ffi, sbcl seems a good candidate once the port is mature.
> (good speed and cffi).
>
> Perhaps the efforts in linear algebra of Rosseti, Tamas, Raymond,
> Liliam (gsl), Luis Oliveira. (cffi) and others could be ported to maxima
> or some interface via cffi between Julia and maxima could be very
> interesting. There also some Lispers that use Lisp and R (for example
> C. Rhodes) . Improving the numeric capabilities of maxima could appeal
> to more people and communities.
Let us not lose sight of what maxima is. It is a computer algebra
system, not a numerical evaluation system. There are many of those already.
Ray