New comment by tornaria on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34849#issuecomment-1005120770 Comment: This seems to be due to slow default arithmetic in sbcl: ``` $ sbcl This is SBCL 2.2.0, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. [...] * (* 0 (expt (expt 10 (expt 10 5)) 30)) [takes ~ 10s] 0 ``` Now ``` $ sbcl This is SBCL 2.2.0, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. [...] * (require :sb-gmp) ("SB-GMP") * (sb-gmp:install-gmp-funs) * (* 0 (expt (expt 10 (expt 10 5)) 30)) [takes < 0.5 s]] 0 ``` The solution might be to somehow link maxima to `sb-gmp` and run `(sb-gmp:install-gmp-funs)` at startup.