[Reduce-algebra-developers] Speed of JLisp

[Simon W. <si...@ge...>]

Dear All,

I noticed that summing a lot of rounded numbers takes a lot of time in 
the jlisp version but not in the psl nor in the csl version.
For example "<<on rounded; for i:1:100000 sum sqrt(i)>>;" takes in the 
psl version about four seconds, in the csl version less than three 
seconds but in the jlisp version more than one minute.

Does anybody know or have an intuition why this takes so long? Is it 
possible to improve the speed of the sum significantly, and what can be 
done do so?

Many thanks,
Simon

PS: I tried "<<on rounded; a:= for i:=1:100000 collect sqrt i; 
aeval(part(a,0):=plus)>>;" too but this is even slower.