Re: windows ver. of Octave

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:09:13AM -0500, Andy Adler wrote:
> > I'm not sure.  Anyone have any idea what compiler flags I should be
> > using for Octave so that it will work on any Windows box?  Is it
> > worthwhile to make specialized versions for each architecture?
> 
> My experience was that a PII optimized ATLAS ran on everything and
> was almost as efficient as the native versions.
> 
> I don't have access to that many different machines, though.

I installed Debian's athlon optimized ATLAS on a workstation.  The
README suggested compiling it even if your hardware matched the library.
So I did - and gained about 10% performance improvement.

Seemed worth it to me.

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