On 2013-04-03, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried this out on an old 750 MHz sparc with cmucl, the oldest and
> slowest machine I have access to. From the maxima prompt until "?
> run_testsuite" returns, it takes about 7 sec. A tad slow, but not
> terribly slow. About 3 sec for the next invocation.
For the record, that's still faster than the machine I used for several
years for Maxima development -- 450 MHz PIII with a slow disk (the
stepper motor sounded like a lawn mower) -- which was the inspiration
for reworking the info system to use an index. That box got recycled a
while ago so unfortunately I can't use it for comparison. Anyway the
index system was fast enough that I didn't notice how long it took. I
might have posted a message about it back when I was working on that
stuff.
best
Robert Dodier