On 12/06/2014 06:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I have a very naive question: the version of lisp we have in Sage is ecl, > does it make a huge difference with sbcl ?
I'd say yes. But it's probably Waldek who has more knowledge of ecl vs. sbcl. I only remember that compilation (at least some years ago) with ecl took quite a bit longer than with sbcl. In fact, I don't see any "embeddable" advantage of ecl for Sage. It's usually the computation that costs time (since I only expect heavier or complicated computations exported to FriCAS) not the conversion from one Sage to FriCAS and back. Especially the translation of FriCAS types into Sage types is nearly impossible. FriCAS has quite a sophisticated type hierarchy. I would expect that there isn't even always a corresponding Sage type that one could convert the FriCAS result to in order to have those values natively available for further computations in Sage. Anyway, being able to call FriCAS from within Sage and thus giving Sage users access to the power of FriCAS, is certainly a good step. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
