Re: Slow performance on Linux

[Robert . Wilhelm]

> However, here is another bm.m.  This time I use the example in the
> octave manual for the lsode function, which is very short.  It would
> be interesting to know if we obtain yet such different results for
> different machines with this change.
> 
> On Alpha:
> 
> bm
> test #1               0.0939749 +/- 4.8% (18 runs)
> test #2               0.453003 +/- 3.6% (10 runs)
> test #3                1.40105 +/- 1.6% (10 runs)

Which Alpha?

  On Pentium 100 (async cache)

test #1         0.206364 +/- 4.9% (13 runs)
test #2           1.0725 +/- 3.1% (10 runs)
test #3            1.876 +/- 0.6% (10 runs)   
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