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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
