Richard Fateman wrote:
> Now what I do not understand is that before loading "orig.o", expand(h)$
> takes about 2.3 seconds. So there is something about MY compiling of orig.o
> that produces slower code. Perhaps there is a prologue to compiling that I
> am
> not using. Nor can I explain why the code -- which replaces memq with what
> I think
> is fully equivalent to memq, fails to run tests rtest2.
>
>
>
I do not know if this is the cause of your problems, but I do know that
not all of the dependencies have been worked out. There used to be (and
still are?) symbols that are defined as macros and then functions later
(or vice versa). Most of the time, compiling and loading a file is ok,
but not always.
I would suggest, perhaps, removing all of the fasls and try (mk:defsys
"maxima" :compile) to compile everything in order again. But even this
might have problems. The current maxima build procedure compiles all
the files and loads them up. Then it loads them all up again before
saving a core. This was done to work around some issue. I don't
remember what the issue was.
Ray