From help-request at octave dot org Sun Sep 25 16:46:48 2005
Subject: Re: speed of octave interpreter
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:44:44 +0200

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:35:23PM -0400, Brian Blais wrote:
> I am running Octave (2.1.71) on Linux (SuSe 9.1), and have written a
> simple recursive minimax example for a class, and it seemed to run very
> slowly.   So, on a whim, I decided to test it in Scilab 3.0, Matlab 7.0

Since you are dabbling with the murky art of recursion, you probably
want to set

ignore_function_time_stamp = "all"

Regards
Stéfan



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