Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Ole Jacob Hagen]

Hi, 

Here is the numbers regarding performance of load function. 
Size of file to be loaded is 640 MB. I don't have the same Octave version on my Win-XP or Gentoo Linux (dual boot). 

Timings were done by: t0 = cputime; d = load('test.txt'); t = cputime - t0; 

Octave-3.2.4 (WinXP): 966.23 seconds
Octave-3.4.0 (Gentoo): 182.5 seconds

So it's evident that it's a difference. 
Do someone has a MSVC build of Octave, maybe the one from Sourceforge? 


Cheers, 

Ole