Secondly, the release notes from last year for 4.4.0 include:
The number of CAS-evaluation sessions has been cut down significantly. Conversely, the amount of things happening in a single CAS-session has grown significantly. This may affect your Maxima load and the size of the CAS-cache. You may need to retune your operation if you have fine tuned it based on those details. This will also affect cache keys and values so tuning caching may also matter if one tunes everything.
We have all the default settings in the "Connecting to Maxima" settings apart from setting CAS connection timeout to 50 rather than the default 10. Settings that relate to caching use the defaults. Is there anything I should be tweaking based on the 4.4.0 changes or will be defaults generally be fine?
Thanks,
Stuart Anderson,
University of Manchester.