About octave performance...

[David Bateman]

Francesco Riganti wrote:
> Dear All,
> first of all, a very big "tank you" for this wonderful project. I have a
> little question: in the next feature of octave, it will be an
> improvement versus matlab performance?
> Actually, i think this is the most immediate problem to solve. Infact,
> despite the use of vectorization, matlab is more fast then octave. In my
> university, I would like to build a cluster system for octave using
> instead of matlab sofware. However, the not yet good performance of
> octave versus matlab, not encourage the cluster project. Can you tell me
> something about it?
> Best Regards
>
> Francesco Riganti Fulginei
> Department of Applied Electronics
> Roma Tre University
> Rome
>
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>   
Take a look at the thread

https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-April/006984.html

in short FreeMat has started implementing LLVM JIT in their development 
tree and I imagine we'll copy their code once they make some progress. I 
therefore expect this to be a target for the 3.4.x (or will that release 
be 4.0) of Octave sometime in about a years time.

Regards
David

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