[Axiom-developer] RE: timeout?

[Bill Page]

Martin,

On September 15, 2006 1:00 PM you wrote:
>
> Bill Page writes:
> 
> > Yes, there is a time-limit of 1 minute for Axiom on MathAction
> > to prevent any problems where a run-away process hangs the whole
> > system.
> > 
> > Can you think of why it might take more than a minute to compile
> > that page? If absolutely necessary I can temporarily relax this
> > restriction.
> 
> Well, it takes several minutes on my computer. I don't really know
> why, but I know that the compiler is a very sensitive creature. For 
> example, moving the operations ord1, ord2, deg1, deg2 towards the
> end of the constructor GUESS, on my machine, the code will take
> nearly an hour to compile.

That is ridiculously long! There has got to be a pretty serious
but in SPAD to take so long. :-(

> 
> Similar findings are actually documented in some algebra 
> files that are currently shipped with axiom...
>

This does not seem to happen during the usual build of Axiom.

> Thus, please either temporarily relax the time restriction 
> (set it to 10 min, for example) or compile the file by hand...
> 

It was easy for me to change it to 60 minutes. So you should
have plenty of time to compile now.

Regards,
Bill Page.