[Maxima] "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"

Raymond Toy toy.raymond at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 08:24:03 CDT 2008


Richard Hennessy wrote:
> "Much of Maxima's internals depend heavily on serialization, as they
> use global variables etc."
>
> Can you consider rewriting these internals.
>   
Would you like to?
> All of this is academic, since Lisp does not use multi-core properly.  I don't know if that is going to change soon.
>   
Depends on the implementation.  SBCL is threaded.  I think OpenMCL is too.

Ray


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