Re: octave vs. matlab vectorization

[matt]

ah, no! code 1 was *faster* under matlab! the ratio is 0.19:1

i find this result quite staggering.

On 14 Sep 2009, at 17:31, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

> > on my laptop, octave (3.0.5) takes 200 secs for the first code and
> > just 24 secs for the second--i thought i had proved my point.
>
> A ratio of 8.3:1
>
> > however, on the department server (admittedly a much faster machine),
> > matlab ground through the first code in 0.82 secs while the second
> > code took 4.3 secs.
>
> A ratio of 5.2:1.  Not quite the same, but I think the point is proven
> nonetheless.
>
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