Re: [Maxima-discuss] Time for maxima in Web Assembly ??

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

ECL supports compiling lisp to wasm. Don't know if the result is  if enough to cause an annoying start-up delay on average internet bandwidths. What I don't know is if there is  gnuplot wasm version - and loading share packages would require extra work...

Am 10. April 2023 21:31:02 MESZ schrieb Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>:
>Assuming that the first order of business, to get a Common Lisp
>implementation ported to web assembly, has been solved (I don't know
>whether this is the case),  I think an interesting way forward with
>Maxima would be to try to load subsets of the whole system, in order
>to solve specific classes of problems.
>
>E.g. just the parser and display code, or just the stuff for
>polynomials, or just integrals, or just arithmetic. Ideally one could
>load just enough stuff to target the class of problems one needs to
>work on.
>
>As it stands, the system definition for Maxima isn't very decomposable
>-- I suspect it's pretty close to all or nothing. So an
>incrementally-loadable system would necessitate some work on the
>internal organization of the code.
>
>I'm just thinking out loud here. Of course there are all kinds of
>practical problems.
>
>best,
>
>Robert
>
>
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