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> Could you please ensure no initialization file is loaded? That could easily
> screw the comparison.
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Sure, I mentioned the other possibilities just for completeness.
By the way, an observation regarding Ecl: It got slower from January to now.
25/1/2011 we pulled a recent version of Ecl from cvs, built Maxima with it
and used it until now. Running our Maxima test-suite always took less than
310s; I just repeated it 5 times, and got between 304s and 308s (measured
by time (process time)). Now with the newest Ecl I get always times between
321s and 328s, and so it got roughly 6% slower.
Just to mention.
Oliver