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: Robert Dodier
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 05:03:59 +0000 (UTC)
On 2012-05-05, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/12 9:00 AM, Manuel Pedrinero rossetil wrote:
>> 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.
Well, we don't have to choose one or the other. Ideally Maxima would
combine symbolic and numerical capabilities. Given the history of the
project and the people working on it, there's more emphasis on symbolic
stuff. But there's no reason to rule out expanded numerical functions,
and in fact we have made good progress over the past several years.
(Special thanks to you, Ray, for that.)
best
Robert Dodier