Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> Yes these benchmarks have been examined. Perhaps a good starting point 
> in the discussion of these is
>
> http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-maintainers.2004/msg00074.html


Octave did very well in that comparison with MATLAB.  It was only on 
Toeplitz that MATLAB really crushed Octave (about a factor of 6).  On 
Escoufier MATLAB was twice as fast as Octave, and on 'sort' Octave took 
about 70% longer.  Otherwise, they were fairly similar and Octave was 
faster than MATLAB on a few (Programmation section, especially Fibonacci).

I'm very impressed with Octave's speed on these tests.  I can see that you 
followed up with a huge amount of work on 'sort,' so 'sort' must now be as 
much improved.

Does anyone know how the current Octave stacks up against MATLAB?  It 
seems like it must be doing very well.

Mike



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