Subject: cacheing compiled integrand in quadpack functions
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:10:35 -0500
>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> writes:
Stavros> the integrand as the key instead of the source form.
Stavros> Translation-to-Lisp should be several orders of magnitude
Stavros> faster than full compilation, which starts an external
Stavros> process, etc.
I believe the external process only happens with gcl. I think every
other Lisp we support has the compiler built-in so compiling is very
fast compared to gcl, even for cmucl which has a relatively slow
compiler.
Ray