Michel Talon wrote:
> 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).
I would like to know what bugs you see with sbcl and maxima. Sbcl is a
very good lisp, so if you see differences, it is probably due to
questionable, non-portable Lisp code in maxima that should be fixed.
Ray