On Sun, 25 May 2008, Richard Fateman wrote:
> they insist on using CLISP, even if it is slow: they require (for no
> defensible reason, in my view) that they can only use a lisp system
> that can be compiled by them on every targeted machine.
There is another possible reason to use CLISP, namely to evade the low
default value of GCL's compile-time option "enable-maxpage"; see my
earlier post at
<http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/001726.html>;.
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Regards,
Dan Hatton
<http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>;