On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:23:18PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023/05/25 18:57, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:23:23PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > > > As well, less urgently, > > > shouldn't there be a way to get Maxima compiled with sbcl, only only ecl. > > > (sbcl typically gives considerably better performance, and it's available > > > in ports, > > > I wrote the maxima discuss list and they affirm the performance boost > > that Dima mentions by using sbcl. However I get this make build error: > > > > Missing library for sbcl>=0.0 > > Fatal error > > *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2385 > > sbcl is a standalone compiler binary + runtime files, there is no > library so you can't use LIB_DEPENDS+WANTLIB for it. would be > BUILD_DEPENDS and maybe also RUN_DEPENDS if needed. >
Thanks so much Stuart: I made the additions to BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS and maxima-5.46.0 successfully built. There is a significant improvement in performance: Compute a Taylor series to 825 terms using ecl: taylor(exp(-x/5)*sin(x), x,0,825)$ takes 20 seconds Compute a Taylor series to 825 terms using sbcl: taylor(exp(-x/5)*sin(x), x,0,825)$ takes 13 seconds 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." I am getting a lot of warnings when I do make build. I am going to capture thise in a file. They flew by to fast to read. > ecl is an embeddable lisp implementation that can run as a library > linked to by other programs. > > > > My Makefile: > > generally a cvs (or git) diff would be preferred instead of sending the > Makefile (please write it to a file and read it into your editor or send > it as an attachment so that tabs/wrapping are maintained). > I will figure out how to do this and do it from now on. -- Kind regards, Jonathan
