Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Mike Miller]

Have we ever discussed this?...

http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/

It could be a good source for benchmarking code.

Octave came in 5th of 7 programs compared.  R came in second and was 
faster than MATLAB.  It looks like the guy did a reasonable job compiling 
with ATLAS, etc., but he notes that these are Windows benchmarks and 
Octave's reliance on Cygwin might be hampering its performance.  R does 
not use Cygwin, so this might be helping R, but it must be a lot more work 
to create a Windows stand-alone that doesn't use Cygwin.

Mike



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