benchmarking - evidence that there's no problem

[Michael Creel]

Here are some benchmark results using my USOBS.m script, which is attached.
This is certainly not conclusive, but it seems that the problem I had last 
week may have been due to something other than Octave.
Michael

Octave 2.1.57:

ans = 2.1.57
                     time        reps    time/rep  
matrix create      75.172    1000.000       0.075
inner product      43.215     100.000       0.432
invert            133.689     100.000       1.337
choleski           26.947     100.000       0.269
concatenate       138.994    1000.000       0.139


Octave 2.1.60:

ans = 2.1.60
                     time        reps    time/rep  
matrix create      75.699    1000.000       0.076
inner product      43.693     100.000       0.437
invert            130.489     100.000       1.305
choleski           25.334     100.000       0.253
concatenate       110.286    1000.000       0.110

USOBS.m
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