Congratulations!

[Richard Hindmarsh]

I recently got interested in Octave after seeing that sparse matrices 
were available, and compiled a recent CVS. I tried running a Matlab/mex 
fluid dynamcis script of probably 2000 lines, and got it to run with 
little trouble (I had to find the functions "inputname" and "num2cell"). 
For a particuilar test case on a particular computer, Matlab runs it in 
10s. Octave runs it in 15s, but with a dual processing BLAS library I 
can get the time down to 10s again. his was without the benefit of being 
able to optimise with a profiler on Octave. The answers are the same 
(apart from last two figures of double precision numbers). T

I'm hugely impressed, and having Octave as a potential multi-threaded 
platform on many architectures is a real bonus.

Thanks to all concerned
Richard Hindmarsh



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