[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] A slow summation

[Martin Rubey]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> > reduce(+,[1.0/i for i in 1..20000])
> >
> > This works, but is (I think) unreasonably slow; it takes over 21 seconds on
> > my computer.  The equivalent command in Maxima takes less than 1 second.

Bill, could you file that as a bug on MathAction, please.

(If you have an sbcl compiled axiom available, you could check whether it is
gcl's fault, or rather a bug in axiom.)

Martin