Re: [Axiom-developer] SBCL and compiler speed

[Gregory Vanuxem]

Waldek,

Le jeudi 22 février 2007 à 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.