[Maxima] ram problem

[Stavros Macrakis]

On 5/22/07, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a recommendation I would like to say that can the newer builds for
> windows be  compiled with clisp for not to confront the same ram problems.
> I am sure it would be easy for the developers to compile with msys-mingw
> environment with clisp.


Memory usage is not the only criterion.  I'll let others address the system
issues, but clisp appears to be much slower in some cases.  For example
(1GHz, 512Mb, W2k):

clisp   GCL
 42 sec   5 sec  genmatrix(a,6,6)^^-1
  13 sec   3 sec  makelist(i,i,1,100000)
 19 sec   5 sec  makelist(factor(x^2-i),i,1,10000)
104 sec  20 sec  makelist(factor(x^i-1),i,1,1000)

These factors of 4-8 are not trivial.

            -s
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