Re: [Axiom-developer] SBCL and compiler speed

[Waldek Hebisch]

> Waldek,
> 
> Le jeudi 22 février 2007 ? 17:40 +0100, Waldek Hebisch a écrit :
> > Encouraged by progress made by Greg Vanuxem I decided to retry
> > my attempt to compile Axiom using sbcl.  One of my main motivators
> > is problem of long compile times.  It is hard to resolve such
> > problems without a profiler.  I was unable to profile gcl compiled
> > programs, while profiling seem to work quite well in sbcl.
> > FYI I use the following patch to Juergen Weiss version:
> > 
> > http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/prog/sbcl-cmu2.diff
> 
> I you want I can upload what I have done (more precisely what is
> "distributable"), I planned to upload it Sunday but I'm not against this
> idea (I'm busy). The bad news is that the interpreter is not
> pamphletised [1], I do not think that the documentation must be done
> now, it has to be done when merging and when, I think, we have _fixed_
> the API (a lot of functions rely on CltL1 (GCL ?) (symbol used to
> extensively for example)). WHat I'm saying does not prevent to document,
> "conceptually", some part of the "interpreter" such that the database,
> the compiler(s) etc...
> 
> Greg
> 
> [1] The build process is buggy too, somes versions of Make (the one in
> Cygwin for example) does not accept the algebra Makefile and its
> inclusions.
> 

It would be nice to see your version.  I certainly would like to
know how you solved some specific problems (non-ANSI type declarations,
BPINAME function etc).  I would like also to time build process.


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                              Waldek Hebisch
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