Re: octave + mkl

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 16 May 2012 16:28, Joshua Dillon <address@hidden> wrote:
> My *VERY* informal timing of MKL+octave shows it to be exactly the
> same speed as Matlab for "standard" operations like eig and eigs.
> Indeed, matlab uses MKL for these operations.
>
> %Octave 3.7.0+ w/MKL:
>>> X=rand(1000);
>>> tic;eig(X);toc
> Elapsed time is 0.967732 seconds.
>
> %Octave 3.2.4 w/o MKL:
>>> X=rand(1000);
>>> tic;eig(X);toc
> Elapsed time is 4.09906 seconds.

What 3.2.4 build are you using? Which BLAS, in particular?

- Jordi G. H.