Slow performance on Linux

[Francesco Potorti`]

   How is it that the machines are so different? Do I not get divison
   by zero on linux or is it not reported?

I get no zero division error on alpha.

   In addition, test #3 does not come back. Is it correct that it takes
   several minutes (or even more?)

It takes 8s per test on alpha.  If the time does not converge, it will
iterate as much as 1000 times, that is 8000s (2 and half hours) on
alpha.  Set the maxrepetitions variable in bm.m to 100 (it is
currently set to 1000), which is probably a more reasonable value.
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