Benchmark for octave

[Francesco Potorti`]

   In any case, the question was, how to tell what kind of Alpha you
   have.  If you are using OSF/1, probably the simplest thing to do is to
   look in /var/adm/messages.

/var/adm/messagesis readable by root only, and it is 250KB...  Anyway,
I spoke with the admin, and it turns out it is a 2100 with four
processors and shared memory.

On a system like this (which is almost always heavily loaded) using
tic and toc instead of cputime makes no sense.  Anyway, I could modify
the bm.m script in order to use clock instead of cputime if the latter
is not available.  What does cputime do on systems where it does not
work?

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