speed in linux vs. windows



On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
>  I noticed (at least with the 5.10.99rc3) that almost everything is
>  faster when maxima is run in Win-XP (Service Pack 2) instead of
>  linux(Fedora Core 4).
What lisp(s) do you use in Windows and Linux? If you use clisp in Fedore, 
this is to be expected: clisp is rather slow. gcl is substantially faster, 
and sbcl and cmucl are, probably, even faster than gcl.

Andrey