Subject: Maxima: compiling with cmucl, sbcl and gcl.
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:55:53 -0400
Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 7/8/07, C. Frangos <cfrangos at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>> However, what I wanted to tell you is that in the second half of the program
>> the function mysimprec() (see below) is called about 5 times.
>>
>> From the running times given below, it appears that Maxima 5.10 is much
>> faster than Maxima 5.12 in running this function.
>
> What is a typical argument of mysimprec ?
>
> I see mysimprec calls factor, fullratsimp, etc.
> It seems possible that the default behavior of one or more of those
> functions has changed between 5.10 and 5.12.
Could it be that trigsimp is no longer a compiled function? This was
changed sometime in 5.11 or 5.12. We now get it from trgsmp.mac. I
think it used to be trigsimp.lisp, a maxima translation of trgsmp.mac.
If trigsimp isn't called, would the times be similar then?
Ray