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11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
1:02 p.m.
Hi everybody, I check the staus of ABCL every few month to see how well it runs Maxima. The findings are, that .... - The testsuite goes through, but ABL is more then 10 times slower than native Lisps. - However, tehre are problems with several packages, e.g. load(fmin_cobyla); fails - Loading Maxima with ASDF fails. - There is still no way to produce an image file. Last year I was told that ABCL can load from URL, but I fear that doing this takes a couple of days 8which I can't afford). So is seems that there is not yet a good way to write Applets using Maxima. If anyone can produce a maxima.jar, I'd be happy. Any comments? reinhard