Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> (affine algebra algebra/charsets algebra/solver calculus colnew colnew/lisp
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>  :
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>>  orthopoly physics simplification sym tensor trigonometry utils vector)
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> Well, that looks right.
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> I don't see any indication that Maxima was searching all of / .
> Do you see Maxima looking in all of / in the calls to stat?
> If not, what do you get for the above steps if you run it on
> a system in which Maxima searches all of / ??
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FYI. 

Robert asked on the ecl list about this, and it turns out it was a bug
in ecl wherein ecl would actually stat everything.  I think it's fixed
now.  This would also explain why I wasn't seeing this since I'm using a
relatively old version of ecl.

So the solution is to get a newer (or older) version of ecl.

Ray