Re: how to improve the speed of octave?

[David Bateman]

frank wang wrote:
> Unfortunately, I could not find a pre-built octave 2.9.8 for suse 10.1.
> I did not install zlib because I only need to make the octave compitable
> with Matlab. My understanding is that zlib will help octave to load some
> compressed data. Since this might not be work for matlab, I did not
> install it.
>  
> After I install the Atlas, zlib, fftw3, does octave will automatically
> link to these library or I have to enable them by some flags?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Frank
>

If you want octave to be compatible with Matlab v7 file format (that
uses zlib compression) then yes you do need zlib installed. Otherwise to
take data from matlab and import it in to octave you'll need to save
with the "-v6" flag in matlab..

BTW, what are the "features" of 2.9.x that you need? Many of them are
dependent on external libraries, and if you don't have these installed
their functionality will be severely degraded. For example glpk or
ufsparse are new 2.9.x dependencies..

D.