Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 3:40 PM Richard Fateman <[email protected]> wrote:

> It would be interesting to hear of a few benchmarks. What observations to
> make?
>
>  WASM advocates seem to hold that WASM code
> executes fast and efficient.
>

From what I remember people at work saying, wasm was about 2-3 times slower
than the equivalent C/C++ code.  Things may have changed since then.

>
>   How long would one expect (under realistic constraints) a computer
> system to take to download a complete
> Common Lisp system + Maxima (compiled from Lisp to WASM?) into (say) a
> Chrome browser?
>

Hard to know now what the size would be, but a stripped ecl binary for
maxima is about 13 MB.  That wouldn't be terrible to download, and it would
be cached so you don't have to download it every time.

>
>   There are many possible benchmarks to compare different features, like
> bignum arithmetic, polynomial arithmetic,
> input/output, the Maxima testsuite.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:17 AM Henry Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Re: emscripten version of ECL:
>>
>> You can attempt to build it yourself:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/tree/emscripten
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marius Gerbershagen <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Jan 14, 2023 9:39 AM
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Cc: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]
>>
>> It's perhaps worth noting that ECL can be made to run in this way in a
>> browser and will officially support WASM in the next release (
>> https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/merge_requests/277).
>>
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>
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Ray