installer for maxima with ccl on windows



On 2/27/2011 1:26 PM, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> I have uploaded an installer for maxima compiled with ccl to
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3305126/maxima-5.23.2.exe
>
> Please try it so that we can see if ccl is a possible alternative for
> gcl on Windows. The documentation is not built correctly but this is
> not related to ccl.
>
> Andrej
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Seems to recover from stack overflow about the same as GCL. (good!)

I assume the test suite runs OK, and a simple plot worked as well.

How about speed?...

showtime:all;
x:0;
g(n):= for i from 1 thru n do x:x+1;

g(100000)  takes 2.18 seconds on CCL
                  0.87 seconds on GCL

on some multivariate polynomial arithmetic, CCL seems to be about 2.5 times
slower.
on integrate(x^14*sin(x),x)  CCL is about 3 times slower.


Perhaps the compiler optimization settings are not equivalent?

This test doesn't show CCL's superiority, just equivalence [but slower].

This would not matter except for people writing papers comparing speeds
of computer algebra systems.

RJF