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Speed improvements in Mathematica 5 ??

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  • Subject: [mg42408] Speed improvements in Mathematica 5 ??
  • From: Axel Kowald <kowald at molgen.mpg.de>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 03:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello everybody,

I just downloaded the demoversion of Mathematica 5 and tried to find the 
advertised speed improvements. I got a benchmark notebook from 
http://smc.vnet.net/timings40.html and run it on my old Mathematica 4.1 and the 
new Mathematica 5 on the same machine (1.8GHz, win2k, 768MB RAM).

To my surprise Mathematica 5 was only 1.6% better than the 4.1 version !!

Any comments ?


                  Axel Kowald


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