[Maxima] Why FFI or CFFI? was RE: Why numerics?

[Nicolas Neuss]

"Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Sorry for mistaking the previous statement.  It is my impression that GCL is
> the primary delivery vehicle for Maxima. Certainly it is the case for my
> experience using it under windows.  (I am perhaps the only person who
> occasionally runs the core Maxima under Allegro Common Lisp, or its free
> version, Allegro 'Express'.

I do it, too:-)  And it works well.  But I didn't know that the free
Allegro version allowed enough heap to load Maxima...

Nicolas