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Re: [Axiom-developer] Ability to guarantee a non-hanging Axiom?


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Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Ability to guarantee a non-hanging Axiom?
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:53:07 -0500

Magnus (sourceforge.net/projects/magnus) uses such a technique (time slicing)
because there are no algorithms, just procedures which may never terminate,
so it time-slices solutions.

Axiom uses the type information to choose the most specific algorithm.
Types can and do override 'general purpose' algorithms when a specific
one is available.

Currently there are very few lisps that support threads although, as 
you're aware, the lisp gardeners are chatting about it.

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