On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.org> wrote: > On 12/06/2014 06:23 PM, 20100.delecr...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have a very naive question: the version of lisp we have in Sage is ecl, >> does it make a huge difference with sbcl ? > In fact, I don't see any "embeddable" advantage of ecl for Sage. > It's usually the computation that costs time (since I only expect > heavier or complicated computations exported to FriCAS) not the > conversion from one Sage to FriCAS and back.
A possible clarification: There are strong advantages to the embeddability of ecl for Sage, just maybe not for FriCAS. We use Maxima via embedded ecl, which makes conversions back and forth very fast, which do matter. William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.