Re:

[Arvid Rosén]

Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> Of all the complaints I have heard about Octave, its slowness is the
> one that stings the most painfully. Cuts deep. Real deep.
>
> So, I'm interested to know, any idea why this is happening? Why would
> a simple for loop with no code to execute except running through all
> the values of its iterator take orders of magnitude more in Octave
> than in Matlab?
>
> Where are these benchmarks?
>   
Is this really a real-world problem? Do you people often run into 
situations where the interpreter speed is the limiting factor. I don't 
think I do, but I guess it depend on what kind of problems you are 
working on.
I just want to say that running empty for-loops is certainly not the way 
to test the quality of Octave as a whole and it might not be a good way 
to test the interpreter either. If you really depend on tiny for-loops, 
you should probably rewrite your code anyway.

/Arvid



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