Re: Future of Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Aug-2008, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

| I think that Octave should be evolve in order to improve the speed of
| execution of the scripts. Some people thinks that Octave is slower than
| MatLab in some cases and it is the reason because them use MatLab instead
| Octave. I remember that this list has a post about the implementation of a
| JIT substitute in Octave

That is a relatively big job.  It is easy to say "make Octave faster",
but in the end, someone has to do it.  So it still comes back to
whether the community is willing to actually do the work, or just post
feature requests and bug reports while waiting for someone else to do
the actual work.

jwe