Re: are there plans for an octave profiler?

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| I'm not up to the job!  I have always wondered how MATLAB defined the 
| term.  Maybe MATLAB does nothing more than Octave in this regard - 
| converting to an internal representation of the code but not converting to 
| hardware instructions.

These days, Matlab has a just-in-time compiler, so it does a much
better job of executing loops and functions efficiently, provided that
it can infer the basic types of variables.  If not, then I don't think
you can get a very large improvement over interpreting the code.

jwe



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