[Maxima] [sage-devel] elliptic_e(0.5, 0.1) differs from Mathematica 7 by about 0.04%.

[Valery Pipin]

> >     >>
> >     >>> suggesting ecl would give lower performance?
> >     >
> >     > It is certainly true. Should I write a paper for sage journal
> >
> >     about it?
>
> I think this is debatable.  Someone here says cmucl runs his maxima code
> much faster than sbcl.  The testsuite runs fastest with gcl.
I think gcl is ok in average. However, it will loose the competition to sbcl 
and cmucl on the memory consumption problems.