Major performance improvements
 
Maple Toolbox for MATLAB
Symbolic Math Toolbox
Speed-up Factor
Vendor
Maplesoft
The MathWorks
Math engine
Maple 11
Maple 10
Symbolic Matrix Constructer Double Loop
0.56
2.69
4.80
Hand-coded Matrix Multiplication
8.17
24.70
3.02
Built-in Matrix Multiplication
0.66
3.56
5.40
Hand-coded Newton Solver
0.16
2.88
18.00
Matrix Addition
0.01
5.45
545.00
Attempt Singular-Matrix Inverse
0.19
12.79
67.32
Matrix Determinant
6.50
7.12
1.10
Matrix Power
2.50
12.54
5.02
Conjugate Transpose
0.10
1.03
10.30