Re: [Fwd: [Bug c++/14563] octave built under Cygwin very slow]

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 26, 2004, at 6:52 AM, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Also, thanks for the suggestion about tracking down the use of quit.h 
> in the time consuming bits of code.  I had already started that just 
> before going on the present trip.  There is at least one occurrence; 
> from the scribbles in my journal, the chain is
>
> tree_simple_for_command => do_for_loop_once => quit_loop_now => 
> OCTAVE_QUIT
>
> Thus in the profiling tests, OCTAVE_QUIT was getting called 1 million 
> times.

The OCTAVE_QUIT macros are needed for signal handling.  They
are not yet used for error propogation as far as I know.  Surely you
could build a version with dummy macros for the purposes of timing?

Paul Kienzle
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