Found the (no more acccessible) mailing list entry in the internet
achive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151020061212/https://www.ma.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2013/034129.html
One of maxima's advantages is that if any lisp has a drawback one cannot live
with one can use a different lisp to compile maxima:
- sbcl is quite fast but tends to run out of memory for big tasks
- ccl has a very memory-efficient memory handling - but is about 10 times
slower than sbcl.
- gcl is fast with big numbers (tens of thousands of digits) but a little bit
slower than sbcl when handling lists; it tends to run out of memory on other
places than sbcl.
Clisp is therefore not a dependency of maxima. It is an alternative
compiler it can be compiled with.
Maxima also provides the possibility to compile it with several lisps
when the package is created and to use a command-line switch that tells
maxima which of these lisps it has to use. This will of course make the
package considerably larger (since in this case most files have to be
shipped in a sbcl, a ccl, a gcl etc. version along with all the lisps
maxima depends on then). But - if there is enough need to do so maybe
the maintainer of the debian package can be convinced to add this
functionality to the package.
** Changed in: maxima (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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