[slightly OT]: Octave featured in Free Software magazine

[Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso]

This isn't a question about help, but it's nice to see that Octave got
mentioned in Free Software Magazine and was quite favourably compared
as "an almost perfect clone of MATLAB."
    
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/cool_fractals_with_perl_pdl_a_benchmark?page=0%2C4

The code provided in the page, written somewhat in a Matlab-style,
works in 2.9.12. Unfortunately, Octave was also the slowest one to
generate a Mandelbro  fractal, at least with the given code:

    
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/cool_fractals_with_perl_pdl_a_benchmark?page=0%2C6

I haven't grokked the code yet, but I do wonder if it's possible to
vectorise that for-loop out... I doubt it, though. Loops that use the
information from the previous iteration for the next iteration are the
one kind of loop I have never been able to vectorise out.

Hope this was interesting.

- Jordi G. H.