On 08/18/2012 03:55 PM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
> First the good news:
>
> I downloaded the latest maxima and got the following test results
> using xmaxima:
>
> My system:
> uname -spr
> Linux 3.2.18-pclos1.bfs i686
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (%i1) build_info ();
> (%o1)
> Maxima version: "5.28.0_6_g6d11231"
> Maxima build date: "2012-08-18 11:44:48"
> Host type: "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> Lisp implementation type: "CMU Common Lisp"
> Lisp implementation version: "Snapshot 2012-01 snapshot-2012-01 (20C
> Unicode)"
>
> No unexpected errors found out of 9,355 tests.
> ; Evaluation took:
> ; 419.58f0 seconds of real time
> ; 62.178547f0 seconds of user run time
> ; 355.74094f0 seconds of system run time
> ; 1,342,058,963,240 CPU cycles
> ; [Run times include 30.39f0 seconds GC run time]
> ; 60 page faults and
> ; 22,128,043,480 bytes consed.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (%i1) build_info ();
> (%o1)
> Maxima version: "5.28.0_6_g6d11231"
> Maxima build date: "2012-08-18 11:47:45"
> Host type: "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> Lisp implementation type: "SBCL"
> Lisp implementation version: "1.0.57"
>
> No unexpected errors found out of 9,355 tests.
> Evaluation took:
> 452.713 seconds of real time
> 450.622495 seconds of total run time (64.740158 user, 385.882337
> system)
> [ Run times consist of 6.099 seconds GC time, and 444.524 seconds
> non-GC time. ]
> 99.54% CPU
> 16,184 forms interpreted
> 8,826 lambdas converted
> 1,448,028,504,492 processor cycles
> 113 page faults
> 17,512,096,952 bytes consed
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (%i1) build_info ();
> (%o1)
> Maxima version: "5.28.0_6_g6d11231"
> Maxima build date: "2012-08-18 10:53:47"
> Host type: "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> Lisp implementation type: "GNU Common Lisp (GCL)"
> Lisp implementation version: "GCL 2.6.8"
>
> No unexpected errors found out of 9,355 tests.
> real time : 408.530 secs
> run-gbc time : 57.970 secs
> child run time : 1.610 secs
> gbc time : 6.840 secs
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> However I did run into a problem with wxMaxima which I thought I'd
> report here since I don't have the necessary account for reporting
> wxMaxima problems.
>
> When I issue the following in wxMaxima-12.04.0 (which I built from
> source today):
>
> run_testsuite(display_all = true, tests = [rtest5]);
>
> I get a series of dialog boxes reporting an XML error, the contents of
> first one was:
>
> 02:46:28 PM: XML parsing error: 'mismatched tag' at line 1
> <repeated 13 times>
>
> This begins at:
> ********************** Problem 41 ***************
> Input:
> diff(f,x[1])
> Result:
> <repeated 13 times>
> ... Which was correct.
>
> The test completes successfully
>
> 75/75 tests passed
> No unexpected errors found out of 75 tests.
> ; Evaluation took:
> ; 0.48f0 seconds of real time
> ; 0.0f0 seconds of user run time
> ; 0.448932f0 seconds of system run time
> ; 1,533,103,192 CPU cycles
> ; 0 page faults and
> ; 7,578,496 bytes consed.
>
> and I have to respond to all of dialogs before I can continue with
> wxmaxima. The first time I noticed this problem was when I tried:
>
> run_testsuite(display_all = true);
>
> and it locked up my Linux system so I had to use the reset button.
>
> I don't know if the problem is maxima's or wxmaxima's or even if
> reporting it here is effective, but here it is anyway.
>
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This morning I reported this on github after I determined I could open a
free account. That was probably the proper place to start anyway, but I
thought initially that it would cost me money to set up the account.
Maxima is looking good, it's just this difficulty with wxmaxima that's
currently the problem. I can return to the the earlier version of
wxmaxima that was installed, if necessary to clear this difficulty.