>>>>> "Andrey" == Andrey G Grozin <[email protected]> writes:
Andrey> On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> What is the advantage of a 64-bit lisp for maxima? It's not like
>> being able to manipulate expressions taking GBs of memory are really
>> useful.
Andrey> It is useful. Theoretical physicists use Form
Andrey> (http://www.nikhef.nl/~form/). Its unique feature is the ability to
Andrey> manipulate (relatively) efficiently expressions whose size is, say,
Andrey> 100 times larger than the available RAM (disk sorting algorithms are
Andrey> used to collect similar terms). Many important calculations in
Andrey> theoretical high energy physics could never have been done without
Andrey> Form.
Neat! Learn something new everyday. 16GB of RAM is pretty common, so
they're manipulating 1.6 TB of expressions?
--
Ray
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