Re: running long octave simulations

[Sergei Steshenko]

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--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden>
> Subject: running long octave simulations
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 2:08 PM
> I have a small script which takes couple of hours to run in
> octave. I run
> the code by invoking
> 
> nohup octave -q script1.m &
> 
> Say the code takes about 10 hours to complete. Now if
> script1.m is modified
> during 5th hour and saved to the same file. Will octave be
> running original
> script1.m or the modified script1.m after the 5th hour? Is
> it assured that
> octave runs the original script1.m even though it was
> modified somewhere
> during the run time?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks
> raju
> -- 
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
> 
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Don't modify the script you're currently running since 'octave' does not
compile source into bytecode (like Perl, Java, Python, Ruby), but
interprets each line when needed.

If you want to change running script, change its copy and try it a
different 'octave' instance.

Regards,
  Sergei.