Octave timing

[Przemek Klosowski]

In playing with meaningless octave benchmarks, I stumbled onto this:

        -(time-time)*1e6

returns around 20 on my system (1.2GHz K7); this is the time, in
microseconds, between processsing two time() calls while evaluating
the expression above. Because time() is a builtin operator, I argue
that Octave's interpreter should be given a rank of .050 MIPS on my
CPU :)

        p



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