Re: Matlab central and octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2007, Gabriel Peyré wrote:

| I do not have time to perform the tests for compatibility on Octave,  
| but I would be glad to help to maintain a code that is compatible if  
| someone ask me to perform modification. I believe the real issue  
| would be to port the mex files, for instance in the Fast Marching  
| toolbox.

The current CVS version of Octave has a fairly complete implementation
of the Matlab MEX interface.  Due to differences in the internals of
Octave and Matlab, Octave's MEX interface is necessarily slower than
using Octave's native .oct file interface directly, but it should
provide a quick way to get the code running in Octave.  If you decide
Octave's MEX interface is too slow, you could convert functions to use
Octave's native interface as needed.

jwe