Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
I've been convinced that this should be done offline in advance! I'll
think about it a bit more and post some patches in a few days.
Rupert
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