Hello! On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:14:28PM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
Fun is an important part. But the main reason is to have fast CAS in python. I am one of the authors of swiginac (so that we use the wheel, instead of reinventing it), but that's not the way. As to speed, we are improving. As shown here for example:
http://groups.google.com/group/sympycore/browse_thread/thread/8062076c7bc880...
Which LISP did you use to compile Maxima? How many times did you repeat the test? (for some bizzare reason the first call to virtually any function is much slower than subsequent ones). What's about more "interesting" operations, such as gcd(), evalf(), pattern matching? Best regards, Alexei -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.