Re: I NEED HELP: Differences between MATLAB and Octave

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Marco Boni wrote:

> The simple code I've attached to this mail runs very fast under Matlab,
> while it is executed very slow under Octave.
>
> Why? Where I've failed!


Do other things run at the same speed in both programs?

Octave's speed is *greatly* affected by the way it is compiled.  Did you
use a BLAS?  That helps a lot, or so I'm told.  MATLAB comes pre-compiled
and pretty thoroughly optimized for speed, I'm sure.

Or it might be your code!  ;-)

Mike



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