> Symbolica is 10 times faster and uses 60 times less memory than Maxima on a medium-sized problem. The larger sized problem does not run with Maxima
Hah...change "Maxima" to "Macsyma" and "Symbolica" to "SMP" and that is close to a slide I remember seeing around 1980 in a presentation by Wolfram and Cole explaining why they had developed a new computer algebra system, SMP, instead of using one of the already available systems.
I don't remember the exact numbers on their slide, but same situation. Existing systems could handle the medium problems that came up in their physics research but were slow and used a lot of memory, and could not do the large problems.
Hah...change "Maxima" to "Macsyma" and "Symbolica" to "SMP" and that is close to a slide I remember seeing around 1980 in a presentation by Wolfram and Cole explaining why they had developed a new computer algebra system, SMP, instead of using one of the already available systems.
I don't remember the exact numbers on their slide, but same situation. Existing systems could handle the medium problems that came up in their physics research but were slow and used a lot of memory, and could not do the large problems.