performance in 64 bits machines.



Hello,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote:

>>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Marco <mmarco at unizar.es> writes:
>
>    Miguel> I guess that numerical routine should take advance of the
>    Miguel> extra precission easily, but i have no clue about the
>    Miguel> internals of symbolic manipulation algorithms.

> All of these could be tested fairly easily by someone running maxima
> on a 64-bit machine with a 64-bit Lisp. The timings for the test suite
> would give some indication.
>
> Ray

I am running maxima-5.12.0 based on 64 bit CLISP 2.41 on an 
AMD Athlon 64 (3 GHz, 2 GB RAM). My OS is FreeBSD-7.0 .
Problem is: what and how could we test, and what should it be 
compared to?
Also I have to admit I don't do any "serious" computations. I 
merely use maxima to prepare my students homeworks and 
examinations.
Though - tell me, if I can be of any help.

Greetings,

Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany