performance on solaris opteron and sparc

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Dec-2010, address@hidden wrote:

| I read in a forum online

Which forum?

| that gnu octave was optimized primarily for the intel architecture chips.
| Is this true today with version of octave at 3.0 and above?

I don't think that has ever been true.

| I would like to begin using octave on my hard to do analysis but
| I am wondering if the performance will be enough.

How can we answer this for you when we don't know any details about
what you are trying to do, or what you might consider to be acceptable
performance?

| If in fact this true would
| compiling octave and using the blas and lapack optimized libraries available
| with the sun studio compilers address performance issues?

Using optimized BLAS and LAPACK functions will improve the performance
of linear algebra operations compared to what you would see using the
reference implementations of BLAS and LAPACK.  We recommend ATLAS or
Goto BLAS because they are free software.

jwe