compiling Maxima 5.29.1 on Allegro Common Lisp, 16X speedup

On 2013-01-13, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Now not everything is set up.  in particular, plotting, info.

Plotting with gnuplot should work -- I see src/plot.lisp has a #+allegro
to launch Gnuplot. So if it doesn't work, it might be pretty easy to
fix. Here is the current version of the code (line 130 in
src/plot.lisp):

  #+allegro (setf *gnuplot-stream* (excl:run-shell-command
                    path :input :stream :output nil :wait nil))

About the info system, the *.info and index files are generated by make
when a tarball is generated (via make dist-gzip). So if one builds from
an unpacked tarball, the info system should work. If it doesn't, it
would probably be pretty easy to fix.

best

Robert Dodier