Re: [gentoo-lisp] maxima-5.33.0

[Panagiotis Christopoulos]

On 19:52 Sun 06 Apr     , grozin@g.o wrote:
> I've committed maxima-5.33.0 ebuild to Gentoo. The running times (in
> seconds) of the testsuite with various lisps on 2 computers, ~amd64 and
> ~x86, are
>
>                amd64     x86
> sbcl-1.1.16     171     196
> cmucl-20e               248
> gcl-2.6.10      216     249
> ccl-1.9         308     323
> ecl-13.5.1      618     581
> clisp-2.49     1013     861
>
> cmucl is not available on x86_64.
> clisp on my x86 computer uses pari-2.3.5 to do multiprecision
> arithmetics; on my amd64 computer, I have pari-2.5.4, clisp does not
> compile with pari-2.5, and is therefore slower.
>

Hi Mr. Andrey,

thanks for the heads-up :) gcl is still so good in benchmarks it seems. By the
way, generally speaking, as you know the status of the lisp interpreters in the
tree better than anyone at the moment, could you make a list of the most
important issues you have related to lisp stuff, that trouble you when working
with your sci-mathematics packages and reply back here? 

The lisp team is highly understaffed the last years, we all know about that and
speaking for myself my free time for Gentoo is very limited but still in this
mess we have to try making some progress. I believe it's time to put back Lisp
in staffing needs and try finding new people to recruit. 

-- 
Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
    ( Gentoo Lisp Project )