Re: octave vs. matlab speed

[A. J Macy]

ARRRRGGGG!!!!

  ans = 22.622


That's octave 2.1.50a-inst.exe running on Win98 733MHz
but did not expand memory for octave, might help..but still

Youse guys are starting to convince me it's time to upgrade
something.  

           - Robert -

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:27:09 +0200
 Peter Cloetens <address@hidden> wrote:
> In important cases octave seems actually faster than
> matlab. For 2D fft's I 
> observed a 20% speed improvement.
> Peter
> 
> octave:
> > testfft
> ans = 6.0428
> 
> matlab:
> >> testfft
> Elapsed time is 7.482856 seconds.
> 
> > type testfft
> 
> a=rand(1024);
> tic
> for k=1:20
>     b=fft2(a);
> end
> toc
>