?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
>
> so the functions are compiled on every 'load', because there is not a
> lot of code, but GCL (since it's C based AFAIK) be slow with such ad
> hoc compilation... fasls are the best way to go, but using 'mk' is an
> overkill for small chunks of code. Again, a Maxima specific tool perhaps?
I would be opposed to creating yet another maxima tool to do what mk
defsystem already does.
>
> Also I would mind moving more things into 'src' (or precompiled image
> one way or another), diskspace and memory is cheap these days
> (compared to year 2000).
Heh. As a developer, I wouldn't like it if I have to compile up lapack
every time I did a build. Compiling lapack takes some 15 min on the
machines I use. And I rarely use quadpack and slatec, so I would rather
have them moved out of src and autoloaded/autocompiled on demand.
But binary distributions can do what they want.
Ray