> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
>> That's exactly the problem. clisp is the slowest lisp supporting maxima.
>> sbcl or cmucl or gcl would be much better, but they are in unstable (gcl
>> even masked).
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Dan wrote:
> What are the minimum version numbers of CMUCL and SBCL for, say, Maxima
> 5.28.0? CMUCL 19c is marked stable for x86, and SBCL 1.0.55-r1 is marked
> stable for x86, ppc and amd64.
Sorry it's taken me so long to do any further investigations of this.
I can report that I have been able to build Maxima 5.28.0 using SBCL
1.0.55-r1 (both built for x86 using Gentoo's emerge). The resulting
Maxima executable runs the testsuite successfully, the results summary
being:
No unexpected errors found out of 9,351 tests.
Evaluation took:
2336.649 seconds of real time
2082.533406 seconds of total run time (2075.625457 user, 6.907949 system)
[ Run times consist of 28.364 seconds GC time, and 2054.170 seconds non-GC time. ]
89.12% CPU
16,184 forms interpreted
8,947 lambdas converted
3,731,155,562,304 processor cycles
248 page faults
17,554,803,424 bytes consed
The story is less cheerful for CMUCL. CMUCL 19c fails to build, due
to the problem described (by someone else) at
<http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-828396-start-0.html>;.
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Kind regards,
Dan