Mathematica Benchmarks

Three tests are described in detail in my Mathematica notebook, benchmark.nb. The results are summarized in the following table.

MACHINE TEST TIME IN SECONDS
Thinkpad, pentium-120 Cargo Loading 4.45
Risc6000, M40 (lexis) Cargo Loading 4.41
Thinkpad, pentium-120 Nonparametric density & plot 78.1
Risc6000, M40 (lexis) Nonparametric density & plot 98.91
Thinkpad, pentium-120 Integer Factorization 16.2
Risc6000, M40 (lexis) Integer Factorization 15.33
Thinkpad, pentium-120 Symbolic Inverse 3.31
Risc6000, M40 (lexis) Symbolic Inverse 3.61
Thinkpad, pentium-120 Symbolic Eigenvectors 7.41
Risc6000, M40 (lexis) Symbolic Eigenvectors 6.55