Element by element operation and multicore.

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Oct-2008, Marcin M Kostur wrote:

| I have just compiled octave with intel math mkl library. In most od
| operations which use
| BLAS/LAPACK the speedup on 8-way xeon is immense (from 3x (eig) up to 20x). 

Compared to what?  I'd be surprised if you get a 20x increase in
performance compared to ATLAS.

jwe