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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:08 AM, David D. wrote:
>
> Yes, I just downloaded the sage-vmware-4.0.1.zip file from
> sagemath.org, installed VMWare Player (2.5.2 build-156735), and opened
> sage_vmx.vmx. I would've either installed fricas simply through an
> install_package('fricas-1.0.3.p0') command in the Firefox session, or
> with a sage -i -fricas-1.0.3.p0 from the command line.
So as far as I can tell he is using FriCAS built with clisp.
Perhaps someone should try David's example with FriCAS built with ECL.
It will probably take me a couple of days to be able to be in a
position to do that.
Regards,
Bill Page.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Martin
> Rubey<martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
>>
>> If you are running longer jobs with fricas, you should consider
>> switching to a faster lisp implementation. For FriCAS, clisp is
>> aboutthe slowest.
>
> We don't use clisp for Sage anymore. We dumped clisp for ECL a couple
> of months ago.
>
> William
>
>>
>> from the INSTALL file of FriCAS:
>>
>> All Lisp impementations should give essentially the same
>> functionality, however performance (speed) may differ quite a lot.
>> On 64-bit AMD64 on average sbcl is the fastest one (7 times faster
>> than clisp), Closure CL the second (about 2.5 times slower than sbcl),
>> than gcl and ECL (about 3 times slower than sbcl) and clisp is the slowest
>> one. Note: older versions of ECL were much (about 4 times) slower,
>> you should use newest version if you care about speed.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
> >
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