Comparison of MPFR with Other Software
Updated for MPFR 2001 with
GMP 3.1.1.
32-bit machine
The following tables give the cpu time in milliseconds spent by
several systems or libraries for different operations, at different
precisions. These timings were obtained on a 400Mhz Xeon
(alexandre.medicis.polytechnique.fr) running Linux (libraries were
compiled with gcc 2.95.2 with option -O2). Thanks to the
Médicis center for
providing a machine with all those systems installed on it.
| 100 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MuPAD 1.4.2 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 4.0.1 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
Ar. Explorer 1.00 | 
iRRAM 2000-08-22 | 
| multiplication | 
0.04 | 
0.024 | 
0.0037 | 
0.0038 | 
0.020 | 
0.003 | 
0.021 | 
0.017 | 
0.006 | 
| division | 
0.15 | 
0.027 | 
0.007 | 
0.0080 | 
0.143 | 
0.007 | 
0.0351 | 
0.018 | 
0.010 | 
| square root | 
0.29 | 
0.072 | 
0.0173 | 
0.0115 | 
0.18 | 
0.032 | 
0.1419 | 
0.10 | 
0.078 | 
| exponential | 
1.4 | 
0.47 | 
n/a | 
0.149 | 
0.94 | 
0.16 | 
1.1191 | 
n/a | 
0.522 | 
| logarithm | 
2.3 | 
0.82 | 
n/a | 
0.344 | 
1.24 | 
0.35 | 
2.0211 | 
n/a | 
1.45 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
1.35 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
 | 
| 1000 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MuPAD 1.4.2 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 4.0.1 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
Ar. Explorer 1.00 | 
iRRAM 2000-08-22 | 
| multiplication | 
1.1 | 
0.48 | 
0.142 | 
0.145 | 
0.37 | 
0.18 | 
1.089 | 
0.51 | 
0.17 | 
| division | 
11.3 | 
0.56 | 
0.229 | 
0.228 | 
1.12 | 
0.25 | 
1.301 | 
0.40 | 
0.287 | 
| square root | 
15.0 | 
1.5 | 
0.355 | 
0.177 | 
1.6 | 
0.70 | 
3.41 | 
1.3 | 
0.364 | 
| exponential | 
53 | 
35 | 
n/a | 
6.24 | 
35 | 
14 | 
78.51 | 
n/a | 
21.1 | 
| logarithm | 
69 | 
52 | 
n/a | 
7.76 | 
31 | 
23 | 
118.9 | 
n/a | 
18.8 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
36.8 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
 | 
| 10000 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MuPAD 1.4.2 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 4.0.1 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
Ar. Explorer 1.00 | 
iRRAM 2000-08-22 | 
| multiplication | 
39 | 
45 | 
4.7 | 
4.8 | 
15 | 
17 | 
104.5 | 
50 | 
4.88 | 
| division | 
1130 | 
49 | 
10.1 | 
10.1 | 
43 | 
22 | 
116 | 
37 | 
10.5 | 
| square root | 
1390 | 
160 | 
15.7 | 
7.5 | 
55 | 
72 | 
363 | 
88 | 
15.1 | 
| exponential | 
5330 | 
9690 | 
n/a | 
620 | 
930 | 
3680 | 
22360 | 
n/a | 
3740 | 
| logarithm | 
5660 | 
15720 | 
n/a | 
343 | 
1240 | 
6750 | 
35419 | 
n/a | 
1070 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
3280 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
n/a | 
 | 
The source file of these tests is available for
Maple,
MuPAD,
MPF from GMP,
MPFR,
Mathematica,
Pari,
and Magma.
64-bit machine
The following timings were obtained, with the stimulation and help
of Bruno Salvy, on a 500Mhz Compaq XP/1000 (aka Alpha EV6) with gcc
2.95.2 under OSF/1 4.0 with 640MB of main memory
(leon1.medicis.polytechnique.fr).
| 100 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 3.0 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
| multiplication | 
.0125 | 
0.000970 | 
0.000965 | 
0.0114995 | 
0.0012 | 
0.0033 | 
| division | 
.0278 | 
0.00212 | 
0.0025 | 
0.108996 | 
0.0065 | 
0.0134 | 
| square root | 
.0847 | 
0.00505 | 
0.0043 | 
0.287655 | 
0.028 | 
0.0483 | 
| exponential | 
.583 | 
n/a | 
0.058 | 
0.871632 | 
0.17 | 
0.4516 | 
| logarithm | 
1.08 | 
n/a | 
0.119 | 
0.836633 | 
0.38 | 
0.8133 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
n/a | 
0.37 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
| 1000 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 3.0 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
| multiplication | 
.185 | 
0.0232 | 
0.0228 | 
0.101663 | 
0.067 | 
0.067 | 
| division | 
.721 | 
0.0472 | 
0.0460 | 
0.461648 | 
0.116 | 
0.116 | 
| square root | 
1.28 | 
0.0709 | 
0.0387 | 
0.988294 | 
0.37 | 
0.5 | 
| exponential | 
14.2 | 
n/a | 
1.27 | 
9.86627 | 
7.44 | 
7.33 | 
| logarithm | 
15.8 | 
n/a | 
1.60 | 
19.3326 | 
12.9 | 
14.01 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
n/a | 
6.13 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
| 10000 digits | 
Maple V.5.1 | 
MPF 3.1 | 
MPFR 2001 | 
Mathematica 3.0 | 
Pari 2.0.14 alpha | 
Magma V2.7-2 | 
| multiplication | 
7.20 | 
0.859 | 
0.86 | 
7.5997 | 
6.7 | 
6.17 | 
| division | 
57.0 | 
1.85 | 
1.83 | 
22.9991 | 
7.6 | 
6.7 | 
| square root | 
73.9 | 
2.74 | 
1.36 | 
34.7653 | 
26.0 | 
21.7 | 
| exponential | 
1590. | 
n/a | 
110 | 
1615.94 | 
1600 | 
1366 | 
| logarithm | 
1410. | 
n/a | 
63.6 | 
7418.54 | 
2550 | 
2150 | 
| sin and cos | 
 | 
n/a | 
500. | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
Back to the MPFR
page.