Re: octave loop slowness (was "")

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,

lør, 18 03 2006 kl. 09:41 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> I can think of a few possibilities:
> 
>   * because Octave's author only knows how to write a naive
>     interpreter and is too busy with other tasks to spend a lot of
>     time improving the interpreter (do you have a better one?)
> 
>   * no interpreter/compiler wizards have appeared on the scene with
>     anything better
> 
>   * people who have paid actual money for Octave's development have
>     cared more about features, correct results, and the fact that
>     Octave is freely available than speed (which has apparently been
>     good enough for them)
> 
>   * our army of programmers is damn small and underfunded
> 
> Now, what can you do about it?  Would you like to help, or just
> complain?
I'm guessing most people using Octave aren't interpreter wizards, they
are just people who care about their data. But couldn't FSF (or is it
GNU) be helpful here? When Classpath needed programmers FSF called for
help, and it really helped the project. Now, could we have FSF call for
help from programmers interested in interpreters? I guess some people
would find it very amusing to create an interpreter for Octave.

/Søren



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