Saturday, May 27, 2023

Re: Problems updating math/maxima

Thank you George:

Good catch. We will ignore this update..

On Fri, May 26, 2023, at 23:34, George Koehler wrote:
> 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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