RE: [Axiom-developer] boottocl

[Weiss, Juergen]

Actually compiling stuff is extremely fast ;-) -- compared to 1991 or so
on a sun sparc ipc with 8 or 32 MBytes of memory. There were some 
functions (not files) which took hours to compile. And in the meantime
not only the hardware has evolved, but some data structures in the SPAD
compiler 
changed from alists to hashes.

Besides -- compile times on gcl are longer than on other lisp platforms,
due the generation of c code and the gcc step. The easy portabily of
gcl has a price.

Regards

Juergen Weiss

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> -----Original Message-----
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>  On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:38 AM
> To: Bill Page
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> Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] boottocl
> 
> Based on what Tim said, I don't think I'm going to gain much from
> elimintating "old" boot at the moment.  The build time, as I 
> see it, is
> dominated by building the algebras.  And each algebra file seems to me
> to take forever to compile.  Making compilation faster is going to
> speed up the built process.
> 
> -- Gaby
> 
>