Re: are there plans for an octave profiler?

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Joe Koski wrote:

> Different computer languages have different strengths and disadvantages. 
> Octave is interpreted, which will never be blazingly fast because inside 
> a loop because it just keeps reinterpreting the same octave instructions 
> into machine code again and again.

I remember reading years ago that MATLAB functions are compiled in memory 
the first time each function is executed within a session.  Does Octave 
also compile functions in memory?  Is it then faster in subsequent calls 
to the same function than it is in the initial call?

Mike



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