fastest machine octave runs on

[Francesco Potorti`]

Hi,

the octave benchmark (tm) (joking...:) has revealed the fastest
machine up to now which octave can run on.  It is a DEC Alpha 21164
running at 333 MHz.  Its performance is about 2/3 greater than that of
a 200 MHz Pentium Pro.

If you want to run the octave benchmark on fast machines, you'd better
grab the latest version, which corrects a bug biting only for
performance indices greater than 5.  As usual, it can be found at
ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/benchmark.m.  

Here are the top 10 machines people has run the octave benchmark on:

----------------------- excerpt from bm_results --------------------
The latest version of this table can be found at
ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/bm_results

Octave benchmark bm 1.9
                                 inv   schur lsode fft2  for   index
octave-1.1.1
...
[13] Sun Sparc20/71              1.87  1.68  1.92  2.00  1.66   1.8
[7]  Irix/R8000                  2.07  1.53  2.17  2.14  1.91   1.9
[14] Linux/Pentium 133           1.81  2.43  2.37  1.44  2.22   2.0
[8]  Sun Sparc20/hyper125        1.82  2.76  1.92  1.98  1.87   2.0
[8]  HP9000/735/99               2.26  3.90  1.37  2.73  0.94   2.0
[4]  IBM RS6000/590              4.28  4.62  1.27  3.83  0.91   2.5
[1]  DEC Alpha21064 190          3.84  3.54  2.80  3.58  2.37   3.2
[8]  Sun Ultra 1                 3.23  3.87  3.39  3.35  2.97   3.3
[2]  Linux/PPro200               4.63  7.02  6.86  3.75  5.83   5.5
[25] DEC Alpha21164 333          9.80  9.28  8.39  9.89  8.79   9.2

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