From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec  7 18:28:12 2002
Subject: Re: Possible starting point for Octave Compiler?
From: JD Cole <jdcole at san dot rr dot com>
To: Randy Gober <GoberR at Bellsouth dot net>
CC: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 16:38:22 -0800

Randy Gober wrote:

>I am not sure if this is the right place, but will surfing the net I came
>across this. 
>
>A MATLAB Compiler for Parallel Computers
>Michael J. Quinn, Oregon State University
>
>http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~quinn/matlab.html
>
>My excitement waned a little when I saw the abstracts dated 1998, but I
>decided to post it any way.
>
>
>--Randy
>
>
>  
>

I've been thinking been toying around with an Octave compiler lately 
also. The nice part about developing such a tool for Octave is that we 
don't have to do steps 1 and two described in the above link, (here's 
one for GPL) because we have access to Octave source. We also don't need 
to develop a run-time library, for the same reason. Actually it would 
seem that right now we could have octave build simple, un-optimized, 
scripts if each octave value was given a print_c_code type function. (Of 
course its not that straight forward, but a substantial amount of the 
groundwork already exists.)

-JD