compare the executive speed with Matlab

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Jan-2009, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

| Well, IIRC, if I need to calculate, say, 'sin' function for a vector of 
| ~150000 elements, 'octave' speed is ~5 times slower than the one of the 
| equivalent code in "C".

How about posting an actual working example so we can see exactly what
it is you are comparing?  Perhaps you are doing something stupid, and
your comparison is not valid.  Or perahaps there is a good reason that
Octave must do extra work compared to the C version.

jwe