Re: Performance improvement after symbol table changes

[John W. Eaton]

On 2/4/19 12:13 AM, Rik wrote:

> This isn't a real benchmark, but I have been using it periodically back to
> version 3.2.
>
> a = 1; b = 1; tic; for i=1:1000; for j=1:1000; a = a + b + 1.0; end; end; toc
>
> On my machine, the RC1 candidate clocks in at 1.57 seconds.
>
> The development branch clocks in at 1.2 seconds.
>
> That is a 23.5% drop in run time.
>
> Nice work,

Thanks.  My simple tests also indicate that performance is similarly 
improved for code that uses recursion and function handles.

jwe