On Fri, 26 May 2023 06:21:35 -0600
Jonathan Drews <jondrews@fastmail.com> wrote:
> Dima was right. Also one of the replies I got from the maxima discuss
> list:
> "My experience is that sbcl is way faster than ecl in practical use.
> "The Testsuite (at least +the share one) loads many packages and does
> try not to do any lengthy work with them. Loading +packages is not
> extremely fast in sbcl. The only drawback of sbcl is that sbcl runs
> out of +memory in places ECL doesn't."
lang/sbcl is "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS = amd64 i386 powerpc". I need ecl for
powerpc64, where I can't run sbcl, but I can run ecl and maxima.
sbcl has "USE_WXNEEDED = Yes", ecl doesn't. Some users might prefer
sbcl for speed; others might prefer ecl for W^X.
--George
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