Re: Octave vs Scilab

[Judd Storrs]

2010/10/6 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>:
> BTW  I have octave-3.0.x both on MinGW and MSVC, the
> speed of octave MInGW version and MSVC version are not
> so different

Hmm. I wonder what else could cause the difference in performance on
windows and not on linux? Unless I misunderstood the datapoints seem
to be:

linux: scilab, octave equivalent
windows: scilab faster than octave

I found this page that describes the build process for the official
scilab windows binaries. It indicates they use Visual Studio C++ Pro,
Intel C++ 11 and Intel Fortran 11:

http://wiki.scilab.org/Visual_Studio_C%2B%2B_2008_Pro_%26_Intel_Fortran_11

Can the intel compilers really be that much better than microsoft's compiler?


--judd