Pascal Obry wrote in message <01bf43f3$3aadb600$022a6282@dieppe>...

>Clifford J. Nelson <cnelson9@gte.net> a �crit dans l'article
><38527A46.B4833D6A@gte.net>...
>>
>> Well then, am I wasting my time trying to beat Mma with a compiled high
>> level language?
>>
>>    Cliff Nelson
>
>If your goal is to beat Mma you'll certainly are about to wast some time.
>To beat it  you'll certainly have to produce some (maybe lot of :) assembly
code...


Maybe only some core  assembler routines  that make use of  processor
SIMD extensions. That would allow  drastically improve efficiency.

I suspect that Mathematica  is using SIMD already.


>If your goal is to build a portable set of packages to do some mathematical
>computation then you are far from beeing wasting your time. And if you plan
>to release these libraries under GPL or let us have the sources then
definitly
>go ahead :)


It would be nice. This could be very good contribution to Ada.

Regards,
Vladimir Olensky