Well, you have been happy running clisp, even though it is substantially slower than GCL. ECL is presumably faster than clisp, but that is not even remotely surprising since clisp is a byte-code interpreter.
I don't know what you mean by the boehm_gc is the best of breed garbage collector. Perhaps it doesn't fail as often as some other heuristics or doesn't have as many outright bugs? When someone's application mysteriously chokes because all of memory is mistakenly taken up erroneously, I guess you will consider it a bug in someone else's non-python code. "Let's rewrite it in Python". (Or does Python also have a "conservative GC" with the potential for mysterious failure??) Such errors might be more appropriately attributed to the design error of the Sage team in choosing an (effectively) non-deterministic implementation of Lisp. But that choice will be so remote in time and place from the error that who would ever lead it back to the Boehm garbage collector? How to fix it? just reboot your Sage and try again? Just like Windows. Usually when I say "good luck" I mean to convey generalized fuzzy encouragement. In this case, given the possibility of low-probability events, a more literal meaning. Good luck Richard Fateman On Nov 23, 12:18 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > this has been discussed a bunch of time, but now finally the first > official move: I would like to remove clisp and switch over to ecl as > the base for Maxima as well as the optional FriCAS spkgs. ecl is > faster, builds and works on way more platforms including 32 and 64 bit > MSVC and has been supported by Maxima since the 5.16.x release. ecl > does depend on boehm_gc which is the best of breed garbage collection > library out there. boehm_gc also has build support by pretty much > anything out there (inculding 32 and 64 bit MSVC) and we have had it > as an optional spkg for a while since M2 depends on it. If we get this > vote going we might see a switch to ecl in 3.2.1 or 3.3. > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
