Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Francesco Potorti`]

>But, have mercy.  The original goal was not to write a blazingly fast
>interpreter.  The goal was to write something that would be reliable,
>relatively easy to maintain and extend, and that would be useful in
>a finite amount of deveopment time.  Oh, and (originally) written by
>one person who was not a compiler expert.

And we are all enormously grateful about it!

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