Subject: ./configure options and speed of execution.
From: Alexander Klimov
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:10:17 +0300
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Robert Dodier wrote:
> > Maxima devs: Is there a good reason to use Clisp as the default on Linux
> > boxes? Maybe we could switch to GCL or SBCL (I'd prefer the latter)
>
> Well, the default choice should be one which is widely available,
> stable, lacking idiosyncrasies, etc.
Apparently SBCL is more "popular":
<https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=...>;
SBCL lisp 1,200,000 results
CMUCL lisp 466,000 results
CLISP lisp 450,000 results
GCL lisp 108,000 results
ECL lisp 19,500 results
and (at least for me) Maxima in SBCL seems to crash less often than in GCL.
The latest stable release of GCL was in 2005, while SBCL is actively
maintained, so I guess that (at least on Linux) the order to try
should be SBCL, CLISP, GCL.
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Regards,
ASK