Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

> I ran some loop heavy code on a Pentium 3 windows matlab, and it was 
> hundreds of times faster than running the same code on a Dual processor 
> hyper threaded Xeon box running linux and octave, (something that took a 
> ~3 minutes on the windows/matlab/P3 box, still hadn't finished after 20 
> hours on the Dual processor 3ghz Xeons, I had to kill the job before 
> finding out the final time it would have taken to complete) Even 128 
> CPUs wouldn't have made the cut.

I bet it wasn't the loops. Probably there was something else in there; I had 
something similar once and it turned out to be an .m file vs C code. When 
things are hundreds of times slower it's nothing to do with the box it's that 
some of the code you're running is interpreted.

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Tom Holroyd, Ph.D.
We experience the world not as it is, but as we expect it to be.