Hello,
has some typos). Maybe it's time to update the website with a more recent
version...
I did some benchmarks of my own. Here's the system information
:~ > lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 42
Stepping: 7
CPU MHz: 1600.000
BogoMIPS: 6784.31
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
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sage: version()
'Sage Version 6.5.rc3, Release Date: 2015-02-13'
sage: a1 = 12345^678900 - 1
sage: a2 = 67890^123456 - 1
sage: len(str(a1))
2777714
sage: len(str(a2))
596516
sage: %timeit a1*a2
10 loops, best of 3: 27.9 ms per loop
sage: time a = factorial(10000000)
CPU times: user 2.7 s, sys: 76 ms, total: 2.78 s
Wall time: 2.79 s
sage: time a = factor(2^512 - 1)
CPU times: user 15.8 s, sys: 0 ns, total: 15.8 s
Wall time: 15.9 s
sage: %time _ = bernoulli(3*10^5)
CPU times: user 22.4 s, sys: 8 ms, total: 22.4 s
Wall time: 22.5 s
BernoulliB[3*10^5]
sage: time a = N(pi, digits=5000000)
CPU times: user 10.4 s, sys: 4 ms, total: 10.4 s
Wall time: 10.4 s
#Using mpmath
sage: from sage.libs.mpmath.all import pi as p
sage: time a = p(dps=5000000)
CPU times: user 5.02 s, sys: 12 ms, total: 5.03 s
Wall time: 5.02 s
sage: time a = is_pseudoprime(2^19937 - 1)
CPU times: user 1.87 s, sys: 0 ns, total: 1.87 s
Wall time: 1.87 s
sage: R.<a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7> = QQ[]
sage: time f = (a1+a2+a3+a4+a5+a6+a7)^25
CPU times: user 472 ms, sys: 24 ms, total: 496 ms
Wall time: 498 ms
#In the symbolic ring
sage: (a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7)
(a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7)
sage: time f = expand((a1+a2+a3+a4+a5+a6+a7)^25)
CPU times: user 4.29 s, sys: 120 ms, total: 4.41 s
Wall time: 4.43 s
sage: R.<x,y,z> = PolynomialRing(GF(13))
sage: time _ = expand((x+y+z+1)**100)
CPU times: user 28 ms, sys: 0 ns, total: 28 ms
Wall time: 28.3 ms
sage: m1 = random_matrix(GF(2), 1000, 1000)
sage: m2 = random_matrix(GF(2), 1000, 1000)
sage: %timeit m1*m2
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.03 ms per loop
sage: %timeit m1+m2
10000 loops, best of 3: 23 µs per loop
sage: a = random_matrix(RDF,2000)
sage: timeit('a*a')
5 loops, best of 3: 404 ms per loop
sage: m = random_matrix(RDF, 1000)
sage: %time U,s,Vh = m.SVD()
CPU times: user 3.32 s, sys: 760 ms, total: 4.08 s
Wall time: 1.13 s
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In[1]:= $Version
Out[1]= 10.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit) (December 4, 2014)
In[2]:= a1 = 12345^678900 - 1;
In[3]:= a2 = 67890^123456 - 1;
In[4]:= Timing[a1*a2][[1]]
Out[4]= 0.032002
In[5]:= Timing[10000000!][[1]]
Out[5]= 3.280205
In[6]:= Timing[FactorInteger[2^512 - 1]][[1]]
Out[6]= 70.412401
In[7]:= Timing[BernoulliB[3*10^5]][[1]]
Out[7]= 20.213263
In[8]:= Timing[N[Pi, 5000000]][[1]]
Out[8]= 2.256141
In[9]:= Timing[PrimeQ[2^19937 - 1]][[1]]
Out[9]= 4.904307
In[10]:= Timing[Expand[(a1+a2+a3+a4+a5+a6+a7)^25]][[1]]
Out[10]= 2.104131
In[11]:= Timing[Expand[(x+y+z+1)^100, Modulus -> 13]][[1]]
Out[11]= 0.112007
In[12]:= m1 := RandomInteger[{0,1},{1000, 1000}]
In[13]:= m2 := RandomInteger[{0,1},{1000, 1000}]
In[14]:= Timing[Mod[m1.m2, 2]][[1]]
Out[14]= 0.184012
In[15]:= Timing[Mod[m1+m2, 2]][[1]]
Out[15]= 0.036002
In[16]:= b = Table[
RandomReal[
UniformDistribution[{0, 1}]],
{2000}, {2000}];
In[17]:= Timing[b . b][[1]]
Out[17]= 1.500094