Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> maxima-5.17.1 is now in Gentoo. Compiles with clisp-2.47, cmucl-19e,
> gcl-2.6.7 (which is really 2.6.8-pre), sbcl-1.0.22. No unexpected errors
> in tests. Timings of the testsuite on my PC (in sec):
>
> clisp 392
> cmucl 166
> gcl 156
> sbcl 246
>
> Andrey
I have seen the same sort of timings under FreeBSD, namely clisp and sbcl
are irrelevant performancewise, and performance is *most* important for a
CAS. People who make heavy use of some CAS routinely perform computations
which run for hours if not days under Maple, needless to say, Maxima has a
performance problem, no need to multiply this problem by two.
--
Michel Talon