On 5/23/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> and it's really getting annoying that it insists on compiling the function
> before evaluating it. In many cases, the overhead of compiling is much much
> larger than the amount of time saved -- especially of course when it
> immediately hits an error..
I'm guessing you have GCL + Maxima. GCL is much slower to compile
functions because it must write to the disk. (I investigated that some
time ago and to the best of my knowledge there is no workaround short
of modifying GCL or GCC.)
We could just change COERCE-FLOAT-FUN to #-gcl the call to COMPILE.
Or just cut out the call to COMPILE entirely. Or we could find some other
Lisp implementation for the Windows installer. Just a thought.
> Is this under control of a switch?
No.
FWIW
Robert