Re: MacOSX: Octave.app 2.9.14

[Vic Norton]

Obviously the situation is not as extreme on your system as mine,  
Dimitri, but, even on your system, doesn't it bother you that a basic  
function takes almost twice as long as a long-hand expression for  
what it should be doing?

Regards,

Vic

On Sep 30, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> octave:3> x=randn(1,1000000);
> octave:4> tic; norm(x); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.240479 seconds.
> octave:5> tic; sqrt(x .* x); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.141808 seconds.
> octave:6> tic; norm(x,1); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.196823 seconds.
> octave:7> tic; sum(abs(x)); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.105629 seconds.