Large examples run much faster in Maple 11 than in Maple 10 because Maple 11 contains faster gcd-code over algebraic extensions, and hence faster factoring with Trager's method (factoring is used in the procedure msqrt in the file Conic, see also the comments in that procedure). Timings can be found at: http://www.math.fsu.edu/~hoeij/files/ConicProgram/.timings