On 7/18/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> I've never found describe to be annoyingly slow.
Well, your computer is doubtless faster than mine.
? showtime (first call) => 11 s clisp, 17 s gcl, 7 s sbcl
? showtime (second & later) => 4 s clisp, 7 s gcl, 4 s sbcl
That's far too slow.
> I thought gcl uses its own info package instead of
> cl-info. (I think.)
No, some time ago GCL was switched over to using Maxima's info
system because GCL's built-in info doesn't respect the Maxima
prompt variables. IIRC that causes trouble for xmaxima and wxmaxima.
Robert