Re: Maxima searching all "binary" directories: conflicts & performance degradation

Raymond Toy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
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On 4/18/26 8:20 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:

> Removing all previous systems might help.
I think that’s up to the user. We shouldn’t do that ourselves.
> Somewhat tangential..
> I was finding disk storage getting filled up for no apparent reason,
> and then discovered another CAS squatting on large directories for 
> each version.
> Mathematica's local documentation, which does not vary that much from 
> say 14.0 to 14.1 took 9 Gigabytes.
> The total install is apparently about 21 GB now,  so keeping backup 
> old copies as a silent default has
> definite downsides.

But even 1 TB SSDs were pretty cheap (until the AI madness came), so 21 
GB isn’t all that much.

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