17 Jul
2007
17 Jul
'07
6:43 p.m.
In general, Maple is very slow comparing to other interpreters. Python seems to be the best choise at this time. In this particular example, som=0 for i in xrange(1,10000000): som=som+1.0/i if i%100000==0: print som, works hundreds (or thousands) times faster - depending on the architecture. Some of Maple experts (including Carl DeVore and me) know how to make Maple to work faster, but it is not a common knowledge and both Carl and me have chosen to stop providing public Maple support. Alec