benchmark

[Francesco Potorti`]

Something strange happens when benchmarking octave 2.0.5 on Sun and
Alpha machines, because the Schur decomposition is clearly slower than
in octave 1.1.1, by around 30%.  This slowdown does not show on Intel
platforms.  Don't know about other platforms.

John Eaton says nothing should have changed that could justify this
behaviour.

Given the state of things, I will delay the publication of benchmark
results for octave version 2 until this issue becomes clearer.

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