Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Robert A. Macy]

Brian,

I just reran 
>> tic;nim_minimax;toc
ans = 4.2462

...a lot more than I was getting earlier today at 3.7

when I disabled the "all" timestamp check
the time dropped down to... 
ans = 4.1870

which is quite a small change.  

You should still look at doing *ONLY* matrix math and get
rid of all of your "for - loops"

                       - Robert -

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:58:58 -0400
 Brian Blais <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:35:23PM -0400, Brian Blais
> wrote:
> > 
> >>I am running Octave (2.1.71) on Linux (SuSe 9.1), and
> have written a
> >>simple recursive minimax example for a class, and it
> seemed to run very
> >>slowly.   So, on a whim, I decided to test it in Scilab
> 3.0, Matlab 7.0
> > 
> > 
> > Since you are dabbling with the murky art of recursion,
> you probably
> > want to set
> > 
> > ignore_function_time_stamp = "all"
> > 
> 
> Holy smokes!  What a difference!
> 
> >> ignore_function_time_stamp = "system";
> >> tic; nim_minimax(15); toc
> ans = 56.552
> >> ignore_function_time_stamp = "all";
> >> tic; nim_minimax(15); toc
> ans = 1.4262
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
>                       bb
> 
> 
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