testing, benchmarks



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(d2) 			     (d + c + b + a + 1)
(c3) ratsimp(d2)$

Time= 4707 msecs (including 3043 msecs in GC)


                 totaltime       CPUtime excluding GC   machine


maxima GCL       10.3            ?                      933Mhz
maxima GCL       11.0            ?                      800Mhz
maxima CLISP     13.2            ?                      800Mhz
maxima CMUCL      4.5            ?                      800Mhz
maxima GCL        2.81           ?                      850Mhz linux
maxima  ACL6      3.27 *         ?                      933Mhz
   mac421         27.0            2.0                    933Mhz
  ACL6 mac421      4.7            1.7                    933Mhz

ACL6 = Allegro Common Lisp.  mac421= last release of commercial Macsyma
* = fastest of 3 runs. first took 7.07 seconds, apparently not enough
memory allocated. Maxima = Maxima 5.5 probably.

There are 2 versions of maxima GCL reported.  2.81 sec from Bill Schelter,
which is achieved by reducing garbage collection time, first doing
:lisp (progn (allocate 'cons 8000 t) (allocate 'fixnum 1000 t)
             (si::allocate-relocatable-pages 2000 t))
and
11.0 seconds recently posted here..

Note that to a first approximation, mac421 is also running in GCL,
though its garbage collection is clearly badly configured or maybe
just bad.