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In my Maple 2020, I noticed my program got stuck (overnight so let's say for at least 8 hours) on factorization of relatively small integer, so I tried the command standalone:

ifactor(630743190664091077)

and it just froze. For comparsion I tried other SW and programming libraries and basically all of them had the answer instantly. Also looking at the Maple's methods, if I force pollard or lenstra, it also gets the answer instantly. If my understanding is correct, it gets stuck on the method 'morrbril' which is part of the default mix (I tried also mpqs and it gave FAIL, but at least instantly). 

Is that something that still happens by default in newer versions? Seems to me if it gets stuck on 18 decimal digit integer, maybe it's not the best default method...

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