Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
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- Subject: [mg117350] Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:25:03 -0500 (EST)
- References: <ilnhf9$odn$1@smc.vnet.net>
In article <ilnhf9$odn$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com> wrote: > One respondent commented to the effect that this was significantly > faster in version 4.2. This was because several of the above steps were > done in more heuristic, and less reliable, ways. That said, it is quite > possible that there are redundent steps, and steps that could be made > faster, in the framework of the present methodology. I an cautiously > hopeful that this will get some attention in future development. > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research Thanks for response. This gives me some understanding of the complexities of the evaluation process. [And you'll note from earlier post that pre-evaluating x/(e^x - 1) took 5+ seconds and didn't speed things up, so apparently it didn't cache anything useful.)