From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Aug  9 07:17:08 2001
Subject: Re: How much time to count from 1 to 1e7?
From: Laurent Jacques <ljacques at fyma dot ucl dot ac dot be>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:17:39 +0200

On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:48, Laurent Jacques wrote:
> On Thursday 09 August 2001 10:40, Ted Harding wrote:
> > Interesting! With a P3/733MHz I get 49.123 (pretty repeatable).
> > (SuSE Linux 7.2, octave 2.0.16)
>
> And for an alpha Personal Worksation au433 (433Mhz) Red Hat 7.0 with octave
> 2.0.16 :

Errrorrrr. It was in fact on Octave 2.1.34 (alpha-redhat-linux-gnu).
So, it is worst.

> ==
> octave:1> tic; for i = 1:1e7, end; toc
> ans = 56.531
> octave:2> tic; for i = 1:1e7, end; toc
> ans = 59.114
> octave:3> tic; for i = 1:1e7, end; toc
> ans = 57.267
> ==
>

Is it due to the gcc not very optimized for alpha ?

Laurent.



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