From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Aug 14 09:18:10 1998
Subject: Re: Octave compared to Matlab 
From: Peter Waller <peter_w at teorel dot lth dot se>
To: Mario Storti <mstorti at minerva dot unl dot edu dot ar>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:16:29 +0200 (MET DST)



On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Mario Storti wrote:

> 
> So that the function is compiled only once. Even more you can avoid the
> time spent in checking the time stamp of the file with the
> configuration variable `ignore_function_time_stamp'.
> 

Is it then true, that to make a calculation with loops takes
about the same time as with matrix formulation of the same problem?

/Peter Waller