P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> 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.
One option is to just run the test suite with a 64-bit Clisp and and a
32-bit Clisp and see how long each takes.
Ray