Hi,

I've been noticing that singular's factoring is grotesquely slow at times.  
What's really strange is that the speed fluctuates wildly.  I've observed this 
speed fluctuation other places in singular as well.  I found 
http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/872
and thought it might be that, but I'm running 2.8.12 and the problem persists.  
I also tried the vanilla ix86-Linux .tar.gz from singular's web-site and it 
also 
is affected.

Here's where I'm seeing the bug: Try to factor the following fairly modest 8 
variable polynomial.  I'm not going to hazard a guess how long the factorize 
will take.

ring R=0,(p10,g0,g1,g2,g3,g4,X1,X2),dp;
poly 
t=-p10^170*X1^10*X2^10+p10^130*X1^10*X2^5+p10^130*X1^5*X2^10-p10^90*X1^5*X2^5+p10^80*X1^5*X2^5-p10^40*X1^5-p10^40*X2^5+1;
factorize(t);

Now, Up-Arrow-Enter at the singular prompt to "factorize(t);" again and you'll 
wait some very different time to get the same answer.  I've seen the answer 
nearly instantaneously some times, but other times I'm waiting 5 minutes (or 
more).

I'm also posting this at 
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=10
as soon as I get registered on the forum.

--
Joel

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