unless people are being very careful in how they use optimize declarations
in the different lisp implementations,
it is possible that a factor of 2 to 10 speedup remains to be obtained.
Care in this generally requires using profiling tools to see where time is
spent on particular calculations of interest,.
More important is your observation that one lisp or another has bugs!
RJF
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Michel Talon
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:26 PM
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] ansi gcl in rpm
>
> Fabrizio Caruso wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > gcl is way faster than the other lisps
> > for Maxima (my eee pc runs gcl-Maxima
> > faster than sbcl-Maxima on
> > my dual core clocked 2.2Ghz!)
> >
>
> I have not observed that. I have seen gcl-maxima faster
> on a few problems, but generally cmucl-maxima seems faster
> for me (i run that on Ubuntu and FreeBSD). Indeed
> i have seen maxima-sbcl consistently much slower so i don't use it
> any more (worse i have seen large bugs with this lisp).
>
>
>
> --
> Michel Talon
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