There exists a vast literature dedicated to algorithms for structured matrices, but relatively few descriptions of actual implementations and their practical performance. In this paper, we consider the problem of solving Cauchy-like systems, and its application to mosaic Toeplitz systems, in two contexts: first in the unit cost model (which is a good model for computations over finite fields), then over Q. We introduce new variants of previous algorithms and describe an implementation of these techniques and its practical behavior. We pay a special attention to particular cases such as the computation of algebraic approximants.