From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan  6 09:43:44 2004
Subject: benchmarks
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:43:43 -0600

On  5-Jan-2004, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:

| I.B Matlab 0.42  - Octave 1.22
|      b = a.^1000;
| 
| Looking at the source, Octave is using indexing for every element.
| Try replacing the nested for loop and indexing with a call to
| data and directly walking the array.  Bonus, it automatically works
| for n-D arrays.

Yes.  It would be helpful if people could identify the places like
this that need changing and either submit patches or at least report
the location of the code that needs to be updated.

Thanks,

jwe