Fast Computation of Exact Dense Dot Products 

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X m9s = {0.019528, 0.060500, 0.12542, 1.4240, 0.28414, 2.3082, 0.58369, 3.0803, 1.0927}; m8s = {0.027811, 0.087402, 0.23598, 3.3344, 0.84369, 10.102, 1.8653, 2.7123, 4.0037}; mpl16s = {36.065, 191.01, 371.16, 746.4, 1152.7, 1151.4, 1988.2, 3109.4, 3419.3};

Shown are timings for dot products of square integer dense matrices. The experiment was performed on an Intel Xeon 3.07 GHz 64-bit Linux system, with a time limit of 3600 seconds. The number at the bottom tells how many times faster Mathematica 9 is than Maple 16.