On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, rjf<fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's nice that the "labels" issue has been resolved. It is fairly > implausible that a user would > type in 32,000 individual commands, so optimizing a search was an > obvious issue. > Of course lisp has hash tables. Also arrays. > The idea that you were generating tens of thousands of symbols -- in > addition to keeping a list of them -- > suggests a misunderstanding of some sort. It is kind of like opening > up a cafeteria in a minivan and > complaining to Ford that their design is bad because it has only 14 > cupholders, and you need at least 200. > Many thanks for all your helpful comments!
Regarding this, I think that was Maxima's design that did that. If you just sit down at the maxima console and type 1+1; a few thousand times (but nothing else), then it will start getting slower and slower, because it is searching through its own list of prompts. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
