Re: Building with gcl recompiles everything?

On 4/10/26 1:55 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM Raymond Toy<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I commented out the rule for tools/sys-proclaim.lisp, and then touched cl-info.lisp. Building now only compiles cl-info.lisp and quickly loads an the remaining fasls. Very fast.
>>
>> Perhaps that’s the solution for now. IIRC, the sys-proclaim stuff just helped gcl generate better code by declaring the correct function arg and return types.
> I gather that sys-proclaim is not in the picture in this most recent
> build. Given that the purpose of it was to help GCL generate more
> efficient code, I wonder how much difference it makes. Can you try
> running run_testsuite with the new and previous builds? I am aware
> that run_testsuite is not a comprehensive speed test but anyway it is
> what we have available at the moment.

This will take a while.

I do wonder if sys-proclaim is working. When I build maxima, I get lots 
of compiler notes that the function signature has changed. It’s been 
that way for some time now.

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