Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Brian Blais]

Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:35:23PM -0400, Brian Blais wrote:
>
> > I am running Octave (2.1.71) on Linux (SuSe 9.1), and have written a
> > simple recursive minimax example for a class, and it seemed to run very
> > slowly.   So, on a whim, I decided to test it in Scilab 3.0, Matlab 7.0
>
>
> Since you are dabbling with the murky art of recursion, you probably
> want to set
>
> ignore_function_time_stamp = "all"

Holy smokes!  What a difference!

> > ignore_function_time_stamp = "system";
> > tic; nim_minimax(15); toc
ans = 56.552
> > ignore_function_time_stamp = "all";
> > tic; nim_minimax(15); toc
ans = 1.4262


thanks,


                        bb


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