benchmark result

[Ronald M. Hidinger]

Here is another benchmark result:

System: 200 Mhz Pentium Pro w/ NextStep 3.3
Octave binary obtained from the archive, not sure
with what it was built.

minors> octave
Octave, version 1.1.1.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> benchmark
Octave benchmark version bm 1.9
Speed of octave 1.1.1 on i386-next-nextstep3 relative to Sun Sparc 10/40
Matrix inversion (LAPACK)         3.21 +/- 28.7% (160 runs)
Schur decomposition (LAPACK)      1.81 +/- 9.9% (20 runs)
Differential equation (LSODE)     3.59 +/- 1.4% (21 runs)
Fourier transforms (FFTPACK)      3.39 +/- 11.7% (100 runs)
for loop                          3.06 +/- 9.3% (80 runs)
-- Performance index (bm 1.9): 2.9