[Maxima] modifying 'great'

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Barton Willis wrote:
> I tried using SBCL 1.0.13 for Windows XP and CVS Maxima. I get
> 3,397,963 calls to great. The calls to great consume about 12 seconds
> out of 99. GCL runs the test suite in about 61 seconds, and great uses
> about 24% of the run time.
> 
> I used a pedestrian method; let me know if it's wrong or silly:

I think your solution works just fine, as long as $elapsed_real_time is 
working.

Ray