From: Richard F. <fa...@be...> - 2014-05-31 03:33:53
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On 5/30/14 11:44 AM, Raymond Toy wrote: >>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Wood <wil...@co...> writes: > [snip] > > Bill> I have a couple of questions for the gurus here: > > Bill> 1. I used the quoted list '(MLIST) but was tempted to use > Bill> "(list 'MLIST)" instead to force fresh cons' and reduce sharing. > Bill> Need that be a consideration here? > > I do not know for sure, but I think the original macsyma did a lot > more sharing so that there was really only one '(MLIST). I think > maxima is a lot less rigorous about this. After all, machines today > have orders of magnitude more memory and are orders of magnitude > faster than the machines used for the original Macsyma. > > Ray > > There is a canonical "shared" (mplus simp) at (get 'mplus 'msimpind) etc. Looks like there is not a shared (mlist simp) but you could put one there and use it. RJf |