[Axiom-developer] Re: Clifford Algebra Requirements

2009-10-31 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Dear Martin, I am surely not the person to aks for general AXIOM(TM) designs, since I am a novice on that either > The current implementation seems to calculate the product of terms every time > it is required when a multiplication is called. From a performance point of > view it would seem much

Re: [Axiom-developer] Clifford Algebra Requirements

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Daly
Martin Baker wrote: Bertfried, In addition to the limitations of the current Clifford algebra implementation, that you explained, there also seem (to my untrained eye) to be performance issues. Also I wanted to get a feel for the general Axiom design methodology by picking a specific issue.

[Axiom-developer] Clifford Algebra Requirements

2009-10-31 Thread Martin Baker
Bertfried, In addition to the limitations of the current Clifford algebra implementation, that you explained, there also seem (to my untrained eye) to be performance issues. Also I wanted to get a feel for the general Axiom design methodology by picking a specific issue. The current implementa