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
