Re: octave-dev slow down

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/23/2017 11:43 AM, Rik wrote:

> As for the cause of this particular slowdown, I'm guessing that it might
> be caused by not recognizing that a'*a can be passed directly to BLAS
> for evaluation.

Yes, that's what it looks like.

I remember recently looking at this issue again, but I don't remember 
changing anything.  I'll check to make sure that we are still building 
and evaluating the compound expression correctly.

jwe