On 8/24/09, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder -- if Maxima's basic arithmetic -- e.g., simplifying 1+2 -- > is super slow for some abstract reason, I wonder if it is taking > longer and longer to compute the next prompt number. That would be > pretty funny. Is there any way to turn off the prompt numbers?
Hmm, my guess is that since Maxima by default maintains a list of all previous inputs and outputs, it might take longer and longer to append to that list ... Within Maxima, try nolabels:true; (constructs and displays labels but doesn't construct the list). Or: put print(elapsed_real_time()); in your script and load("myscript.mac"); (parses and evaluates all the stuff in the script but doesn't create labels). HTH Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---