On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Bateman wrote:
Yes these benchmarks have been examined. Perhaps a good starting
point in the discussion of these is
http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-maintainers.2004/msg00074.html
Search for the terms "sciviews" and benchmark in 2004 in the help and
maintainers list at
http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/index.html
will give you quite a few more. I took quite some effort on the sort
(in octave) and randn (in octave-forge) functions to improve these
benchmarks, and many other things at the time. I think recent
versions of octave built with atlas/fftw hold up pretty well on this
benchmark now.
Thanks, David. That's important information. I hope you'll share it
with the list.
Mike