write_data spends too much time to create file.




On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Raymond Toy wrote:

<  On 8/3/10 4:13 AM, Leo Butler wrote:
< > < Maxima version: 5.21.1
< > < Maxima build date: 19:23 6/16/2010
< > < Host type: i486-slackware-linux-gnu
< > < Lisp implementation type: CLISP
< > < Lisp implementation version: 2.48 (2009-07-28) (built 3481838619)
< > < (memory 3485697798)
< > < 
< > < 
< > < I have a newer version of CLISP than Alejandro. Maybe we should file a
< > < bug report to the CLISP developers community 
< >
< Just to confuse things a little more, here is what I get on two
< different systems with two different versions of clisp:
< 
< (%i1) build_info();
< 
< Maxima version: 5.21post
< Maxima build date: 11:14 8/2/2010
< Host type: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
< Lisp implementation type: CLISP
< Lisp implementation version: 2.49 (2010-07-07) (built 3489689289)
< (memory 3489750895)
< 
< (%i5) Evaluation took 0.3104 seconds (1.7102 elapsed) using 2.541 MB.
< 
< (%i1) build_info();
< 
< Maxima version: 5.21post
< Maxima build date: 9:27 7/28/2010
< Host type: sparc-sun-solaris2.10
< Lisp implementation type: CLISP
< Lisp implementation version: 2.47 (2008-10-23) (built 3475493476)
< (memory 3489312486)
< 
< (%i5)
< Evaluation took 0.8562 seconds (2.2845 elapsed) using 2.481 MB.
< 
< It's a little slow, but nothing like the other examples.
 
Yes, this is the same thing that I observed.
I am back to my original speculation that this is down to
differing build environments.

Maybe Robert has some ideas, as he wrote numericalio.

Leo

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