On Sep 8, 12:48 pm, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > From what I understand, ecl is bascially an interpreter for maxima. In > which case, I suspect the fact it is 32-bit will have little effect > unless one wished to alloate a lot of memory. Most programs in Solaris > are compiled as 32-bit, despite this being a 64-bit OS. It is > generally faster, since as pointers are smaller, and so more can be > fitted into the cache. 64-bit code does have its disadvantages.
OS X has a problem. 64-bit executables are not able to load 32-bit binaries. It is basically forbidden. So if you build Sage in 64-bits mode, then ECL has to be built in 64-bits mode as well. Juanjo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
