Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> Have you considered how fast or slow this is on older machines? It
> seems that most developers have reasonably fast machines so we might
> not notice. But I think some (many? few?) users have much slower
> machines. Or at least some had machines without sse support, which is
> a pretty old machine.
That's why I wrote up the timings carefully. I intend to spend some time
over the next few days seeing if I can speed up the GCL and SBCL
versions a bit more. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the ECL version
can run faster than double the speed it currently does (which is why
there's the note about timing reading line by line in the commit note).
Do you have an idea of what's an acceptable wait to you? I mean, there
will be a slight pause the first time a user calls "?" or "??". Is 1
second on a slowish machine acceptable? 2? 5? I've been sort of assuming
something like "2 seconds on a 5 year old laptop", but I plucked the
figure out of thin air to be honest.
Rupert
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 315 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/attachments/20130324/445d4b0d/attachment.pgp>;