On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 13:39, a9104910@unet.univie.ac.at wrote:
> After compiling, the maxima code was faster than MMA by a factor of two,
> but the lisp code was faster by a factor of eight (!). (Well, not very
> thoroughly tested, though)
>
> Should we really write packages for which speed is an issue and for which
> not much maxima stuff is needed in the maxima language? Of course, a
> package written in lisp should run on all lisps that maxima supports, but
> this is probably rarely a problem (or isn't it?)
It would definitely be interesting to look at your code in order to
analyze where the large speed difference arises. Would you be willing to
share it with us?
--Jim