[Maxima] Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?

[Robert Dodier]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> (affine algebra algebra/charsets algebra/solver calculus colnew colnew/lisp
 :
 :
 :
>  orthopoly physics simplification sym tensor trigonometry utils vector)

Well, that looks right.

I don't see any indication that Maxima was searching all of / .
Do you see Maxima looking in all of / in the calls to stat?
If not, what do you get for the above steps if you run it on
a system in which Maxima searches all of / ??

FWIW

Robert Dodier