Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The slowness of GCL is another irritating aspect of working on current > Axiom code base. > > Please, don't tell me you're not concerned about wasting developer's time.
Oh no. Though GCL may not be super-duper-fast when it comes to compile times, there are may opportunities for speeding up the build which at the same time have other benefits. For example, eliminating dead code. I looked at the email archives w.r.t saturn and the majority of the posts were discussing how to remove the connection to the system so that a windows build was possible. Though not dead strictly speaking, Im looking at removing the nag fortran library support, which appears quite straight forward to do. Im sure you could aticipate this, but I suspect that getting Boot out of the picture and eliminating (understand, this is just my perspective) a significant layer of indirection would _significantly_ reduce compile times. I would not be surprised if a lisp rewrite saw the SPAD compiler build time drop to 15-20 minutes (I think this is a conservative estimate). If done properly, the algebra build could drop significantly as well. In short, I dont blame GCL for axioms long build times. Sincerely, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
