Octave review

[bharat at arithos.com]

More feathers will be added to the review if some benchmark
data is available. Like speed of execution, ease of use,
learning curve etc. I am planning to benchmark Matlab, Octave,
Scilab and Python for Signal Processing Application. If anyone
wishes to include any other free s/w in this benchmark comparison
please let me know. My email Id is bharat at arithos.com, also if
some prior benchmark data is available then please let me know.

Regards
Bharat Pathak

Arithos Designs
www.Arithos.com

DSP Design Consultancy and VLSI Training Company.








> Hello,
> I think that you review is really nice. It would be a good idea to improve
> the wikipedia article about GNU Octave with this contribution.
>
> 2009/2/7 Doug Stewart <dastew at sympatico.ca>
>
>> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > It's come to my attention that a writeup of mine comes as the first
>> > Google hit when looking for "octave review", so now I am starting to
>> > feel more responsible for what I wrote in it.
>> >
>> > I rewrote it today updating what I know, but I know I probably have
>> > some facts wrong, and I also probably neglected to mention other
>> > important advantages and drawbacks of Octave as it currently stands.
>> >
>> > Although I wouldn't want to wikify it (I want to keep my voice in it,
>> > as it has to be for a review) I am writing to request that anyone who
>> > can point out omissions or improvements to it, please do so.
>> >
>> >
>> some typos
>>
>> In the following  section  it should be     In there own words
>>
>> compatibility with Matlab. In the own words of the developers as seen in
>> the mailing lists, Octave doesn't purport to be a bug-for-bug
>> <
>> http://www.everything2.com/title/imitation%2520is%2520the%2520highest%2520form%2520of%2520flattery
>> >
>> copy of Matlab, so things sometimes differ intentionally, but the grand
>> eventual goal might be to make all the existing and vast codebase
>> written for Matlab to work in Octave, today still not completely
>> attained.
>>
>>
>> Matlab codebase that has us gotten us into this fine mess to begin with.
>> The Matlab users almost always
>>
>>
>>
>> and one addition:
>> you say
>> Octave in particular has nothing like Simulink
>> <http://www.everything2.com/title/Simulink>, which I've never personally
>> used but I understand is an important reason for the foothold Matlab has
>> as a de-facto standard in the numeric community. I have also not heard
>> of any attempts at making anything like Simulink for Octave.
>>
>> scilab  (  free software )  does have a "Simulink" compatable  package
>> called scicos.
>>
>> see
>> http://www.scilab.org/doc/scicos/index.html
>>
>>
>> You could add this info to show that there is also a free replacement
>> for simulink
>>
>> Doug Stewart
>>
>>
>> > The review can be found here:
>> >
>> >      http://www.everything2.com/title/GNU+Octave
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > - Jordi G. H.
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