Question: Why is matrix rank evaluating so slowly?

I have the following program which constructs the multiplication table, CI, for a matrix Lie algebra and evaluates the difference between CI's row dimension and its rank. The code is a little convoluted because "LieTable" formats the entries very strangely and forces incorrect rank values.

The matrix CI is constructed rather quickly (within a few seconds), and everything works well with "small" examples (up to 12 basis elements has evaluated within seconds). However, the example I've included is for a 27-dimensional Lie algebra. As I stated, CI is constructed quickly, even in larger examples, but the rank evaluation (i.e., LinearAlgebra:-Rank(CI)) has never completed for the example I've included. I let it run for about 3 hours before shutting it down.

I have an older Macbook Air which I am using to run these computations. Could this simply be an issue of not enough computing power?

I have attempted to import the matrix CI into Mathematica (to see if it was simply a limitation of Maple), but that's its own headache (reads entries of the matrix incorrectly).

Any recommendations would help. If this is an issue of computing power, I can get access to a more powerful system soon. It doesn't seem that the code itself would cause the issue, since it is not the construction of the matrix which is giving me issues, it is the evaluation of the rank. I am rather naive about Maple (and programming in general) though, so I may be wrong.

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