On 5/22/07, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a recommendation I would like to say that can the newer builds for
> windows be compiled with clisp for not to confront the same ram problems.
> I am sure it would be easy for the developers to compile with msys-mingw
> environment with clisp.
Memory usage is not the only criterion. I'll let others address the system
issues, but clisp appears to be much slower in some cases. For example
(1GHz, 512Mb, W2k):
clisp GCL
42 sec 5 sec genmatrix(a,6,6)^^-1
13 sec 3 sec makelist(i,i,1,100000)
19 sec 5 sec makelist(factor(x^2-i),i,1,10000)
104 sec 20 sec makelist(factor(x^i-1),i,1,1000)
These factors of 4-8 are not trivial.
-s