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From: toms@bcsaic.UUCP (tom skillman)
Newsgroups: net.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: Speeding up macsyma
Message-ID: <210@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 12:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 12:07:32 1985
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Keywords: macsyma SMP REDUCE

In article <365@brl-sem.ARPA> nlevin@brl-semvin (SECAD/CSMB) .ARPA (Norm Levin (SECAD/CSMB) ) writes:
>
>I'm a new user of macsyma and I've run across a few problems the NET
>can help out with....
>For that matter, is there any other way to get a macsyma
>program running faster?  In addition, the manuals description
>mentions a share file called fortra which is supposed to translate
>macsyma code to fortran.  If this exists, how can I get it?
>

Norm,

I don't know how to speed up macsyma but SMP from Inference Corp. in LA
(213-417-7997) is supposed to be faster than macsyma.  It is written in
C and includes a FORTRAN code generator.

Tom Skillman
Boeing AI Center
Seattle
(206) 763-6024