From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb  4 21:37:41 2005
Subject: Re: octave-speed
From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
To: Help-Octave List <help at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:35:43 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:

> Performance for vector operations is on par with matlab.  Performance 
> for loops takes a 10x hit.

What causes that?  Does it have to do with compilers we're using or does 
MATLAB have some kind of tricky algorithm inside that we don't understand?

Mike



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