>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> On 7/18/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>> I've never found describe to be annoyingly slow.
Robert> Well, your computer is doubtless faster than mine.
Robert> ? showtime (first call) => 11 s clisp, 17 s gcl, 7 s sbcl
Robert> ? showtime (second & later) => 4 s clisp, 7 s gcl, 4 s sbcl
Robert> That's far too slow.
Whoa! That is far too slow. I don't know what has happened then. I
do recall testing 2 different regex packages and one had times like
you say. Nregex produced times of 1 sec or less on a 300 MHz sparc
with cmucl. Since you said you have a 450 MHz machine, something bad
has happened since nregex and cl-info were added.
>> I thought gcl uses its own info package instead of
>> cl-info. (I think.)
Robert> No, some time ago GCL was switched over to using Maxima's info
Robert> system because GCL's built-in info doesn't respect the Maxima
Robert> prompt variables. IIRC that causes trouble for xmaxima and wxmaxima.
Oh, that's a problem for gcl since it's compiler is very slow.
If describe were faster, say, by replacing nregex with cl-ppcre, would
that be acceptable?
Have you investigated why it is so slow? I'll try to look, but the
slowest machine I have access to now is a 800 MHz machine.
Ray