Mathematica 3.01 is slower than Mathematica 3.0 on PowerMacs!
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- Subject: [mg9633] Mathematica 3.01 is slower than Mathematica 3.0 on PowerMacs!
- From: charles.bouldin at nist.gov (Charles Bouldin)
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:49:42 -0500
- Organization: NIST
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I reported this before, even sent a bug report in to WRI, and more or less got a big series of yawns. Here is the scoop: There is a rather extensive Mathematica benchmark series, created by Karl Unterkolfer, with up to date results kept at: http://fampm201.tu-graz.ac.at/karl/timings30.html. If you look at reference 89 on that page, you will see a report that Mathematica 3.01 is 15% slower than Mathematica 3.0. This is exactly the same result that I reported to WRI within days of the release of 3.01. I remain very displeased about this result. I have heard nothing from WRI except a grudging acknowledgement "You're right" and some vague noises to "wait for the next release". When??? Does anyone else see 3.01 to be slower than 3.0 on PowerMacs? Or, is there something very anomalous about Karl's test codes? I don't think so. I would be interested in reports from Mathematica users and I would like to hear further about this from WRI. My earlier report is now verified on a public web site and I would like to see WRI stop ignoring this issue and provide an explanation. -- Charles Bouldin