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 <jondr...@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 >
