engine
The engine is the part of the program that is dedicated to
performing the computation of Groebner bases with Buchberger's
algorithm. It is coded directly in C++ for speed, and it communicates
with the front-end interpreter through a bidirectional stream of bytes,
so that in future implementations the engine may reside in a separate
process on a distant machine.
The Macaulay 2 engine provides fast polynomial and matrix operations,
and Groebner bases, syzygies, Hilbert functions, resolutions and
other operations that we feel need to be implemented directly for
efficiency reasons.
