About octave performance...

[Bill Denney]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> Matlab's interpreter now has a JIT compiler, which can
> improve the speed of some m-file code a lot. However, I daresay that
> Octave has significantly better support for compiled (C++) files via
> its object-oriented internal API, so the demand for JIT in Octave is
> not that high.
>   

I would actually disagree with the above assertion.  There are a rather 
large number of octave users who will never touch C++ and will only work 
via .m files, and for us, speed of interpreted code (via JIT or 
vectorization or any other mechanism) can be important.

Have a good day,

Bill