Timing comparison for diffeq program in c++, Maple and Maxima



>  c++ is almost 32 times faster than Maple which is almost
>  31 times faster than Maxima So c++ is almost 982 times
>  faster than Maxima.

Well, I can prove that maxima is three times faster than
Mathematica.

These were done on the same machine:

Mathematica 8.0:

In[9]:= 
Timing[FactorInteger[8478652817085319534251064469689222730894091034507427331241538883820818894545883959]]

Out[9]= {2434.64, {{75582488424179347083438319, 1},

>  {112177476474470525577861298937835338545723093134076373561, 1}}}

maxima 5.20.1 , gcl 2.6.7

(%i3) 
factor(8478652817085319534251064469689222730894091034507427331241538883820818894545883959);
Evaluation took 783.2400 seconds (783.9600 elapsed)
(%o3) 75582488424179347083438319
                       
112177476474470525577861298937835338545723093134076373561


John