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Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.6 errors on SuSe 9.1
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.6 errors on SuSe 9.1 |
Date: |
09 Feb 2005 07:39:42 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Greetings, and thanks for the report! Will be happy to look into this
on or about 2/15 when I get back in the saddle.
Take care,
Andrei Zorine <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello, Lis{t,p}ers!
> I have two questions.
>
> I have compiled gcl-2.6.6 on SuSe-Linux 9.1 machine, compilation
> process seemed OK But I get some errors:
> 1. Call to (time (+ 1 2)) produces "Error in - [or a callee]: NIL is
> not of type NUMBER." This error was also in 2.6.3, but I hoped it'd go
> away in new version of gcl
> 2. (room) gives "Error in NTH [or a callee]: Expected a FIXNUM" Same
> as in 2.6.3
>
> The reason I went for 2.6.6 was slow-down after declare'ing variables
> in a function. I played with a Mersenne number tester:
>
> (defun $mersenne(n)
> (let* ((L 4) (q (integer-length n)))
> ;(declare (type integer L q))
> (cond ((<= q 2) (error "q must be >2")))
> (dotimes (i (- q 2) (= 0 (mod L n)))
> (setq L (mod (- (* L L) 2) n)))))
>
> This function compiled as is ran faster than one compiled with
> (declare...) uncommented. The time difference was about 0.5 sec, which
> is significant for 2.8GHz P4 ( I tried n=2^11213-1 ).
>
> --
> Andrei Zorine
>
>
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