Re: Octave/Matlab gcc front end?

[Alexey Goldin]

Ted Harding writes:
 > 
 > It would improve performance enormously in some cases. I have encountered
 > cases where the m-file takes many minutes (even up to an hour), and it is
 > quicker to put the data out to a file, pass this file to a C program which
 > does the computation (use the "system" command) and passes it back through
 > a file which octave re-loads (a matter of seconds). This in fact is one
 > way of doing it (you just make sure the C program writes the file in the
 > right format), but it clashes a bit with the philosophy of a program like
 > octave.
 > 
 > It would be a great help if this were better integrated into octave.
 > 
 > Ted.                                    (address@hidden)

Much better to use dld. Unfortunately it does not work on all systems.