Re: [Maxima-discuss] Trying to accommodate GCL is keeping us from making progress

[Camm M. <ca...@ma...>]

Greetings!

Gunter Königsmann via Maxima-discuss
<max...@li...> writes:

> Gcl is faster than sbcl when running the test bench because sbcl compiles loads of stuff which needs time. I don't remember if sbcl additionally still lacks fast bigint multiplications while gcl supports them.
>
> Memory-wise both sbcl and gcl tend to mysteriously run out of memory
> in places in which both clisp and ecl only use small amounts of
> memory. I originally switched from gcl to sbcl since for my tasks sbcl
> was up to 10 times faster and ran out of memory way less often if many
> results of if() commands were cached.

Would love examples of the 10x speedup so that I might address them.

Take care,
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Camm Maguire			     		    ca...@ma...
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