Octave: Parallelizing a for-loop in Octave.

[Constantine Frangos]

Hi all,

I am using Octave 3.8 on an intel quad-core cpu running ubuntu linux.

In Matlab, there is a construct for parallelizing a single for-loop
as follows:

function test_parallel;
...............
N = 1000;
results_vec = zeros(1,N);

parfor i1 = 1:N
%Some computations producing y.
results_vec(i1) = y;
end;
.............
%end of function.

How can the above construct be implemented in Octave (in order 
to run on a quad-core cpu) ?

Thanks.
Regards,
Constantine.