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Re: maxima 5.14.0



On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:20:07AM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed maxima has been updated to 5.14.0. It would be nice if,
> perhaps using the options framework, one could choose SBCL in place of
> CLISP. It seems SBCL is substantially faster than CLISP, although this
> probably is due to higher memory footprint (which one could argue is
> not as important these days...).

Which would unfortunally reduce maxima to only support i386 and nothing
more (not even amd64), because sbcl is only supported on i386.

Bernd




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