Linux/Pentium Pro 200 benchmark

[Evan Thomas]

Here are the results of running Francesco Potorti's benchmark, version
1.5. I was not able to download version 1.6, but I beleive that it only
contains minor bug fixes.

Octave benchmark version bm 1.5
Speed of octave 1.1.1 on i586-unknown-linux relative to Sun Sparc 10/40
Matrix inversion (LAPACK)         4.55 +/- 1.7% (56 runs)
Schur decomposition (LAPACK)      7.10 +/- 3.1% (35 runs)
Differential equation (LSODE)     6.92 +/- 0.9% (35 runs)
Fourier transforms (FFTPACK)      3.73 +/- 0.2% (42 runs)
for loop                          5.78 +/- 0.5% (49 runs)
-- Performance index (bm 1.5): 5.5 

Machine details -
CPU:     Intel Pentium Pro 200 Mhz
Memory:  64 Mb
OS:      Debian Linux 1.1, kernel 2.0.0
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Evan Thomas
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, 3052
ph: 9344-5849  fax: 9347-5219