A friend of mine FTP'd CLISP for me, but I find it very slow. I am running a
386 without a 387 is that the reason? or is there a secret to configuring
CLISP so it has 1/10th the speed of circa 1985 GCLisp?
regards john
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john somerville B.C. Hydro
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···············@mindlink.bc.ca (John Somerville) writes:
> A friend of mine FTP'd CLISP for me, but I find it very slow. I am running a
> 386 without a 387 is that the reason?
No. The DOS version of CLISP runs on any 386 or 486 with at least 1 megabyte
RAM. You should
- use lisp_1mb.exe if you have only 1 or 2 megabyte RAM, as stated in the
readme file,
- read the documentation file emx-user.doc and then clean up your config.sys
and autoexec.bat files: remove ramdisks and other memory hoggers and
memory "managers".
When run with too few memory available, clisp must swap to disk.
Compiling programs also increases their speed.
Bruno Haible
······@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
CLISP maintainer