Exponentiation used in division? & Some extrordinary slowness is some problems.

I have functions to which I pass strings. I see no type for them. Does 
that mean I can not use modedeclare?
I saw that you can pass only some functions (instead of all) to compile, 
does that mean I could compile all except those
containing strings and still run the program?  If not there is no use in 
trying it.

There are over 100 programs in my test suite. Only two take anything 
like this long. They are quite long complex  programs but so are many of 
the others.

I am not very concerned about this as I can use the other languages, and 
I have learned a lot in the process.

Dennis Darland
student at dennisdarland.com

On 12/31/2013 12:04 PM, Dennis Darland - student wrote:
> I've decided to try modedeclare. If I remember correctly, I could not 
> use bfloat in declare_variable either. I will
> try to isolate the changes however. I only have one program to 
> generate c, c++, Ruby, Maxima or Maple.
>
> Dennis Darland
> student at dennisdarland.com
>
> On 12/31/2013 11:08 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>> On 2013-12-31, Dennis Darland - student <student at dennisdarland.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I do not expect maxima to be comparable to c at number crunching,
>>> but there are two examples in my tests that it appears would take over
>>> one day to complete using maxima, but take only 4 and 5 seconds
>>> respectively in c.
>> A major factor is that Maxima is probably doing something much more
>> general than necessary. Speeding up the code would require recognizing
>> that a special case is possible and then exploiting it. Maxima has some
>> machinery for that, but it is clumsy to use and not terribly effective.
>> I certainly agree that getting Maxima to run faster is a good idea, but
>> at present we (developers) are mostly concerned with trying to get it
>> to run correctly first. If you would like to work on speed, though, you
>> are more than welcome to do so.
>>
>> best
>>
>> Robert Dodier
>>
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