But 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---