benchmark 1.4 Results

[John L Daschbach]

Here are results for an RS6000/590 AIX 3.2.5.
This is using the binary distribution from bevo.
Looks like the RS6000 doesn't do too well with the interpreted part of
octave but has decent speed for the LAPACK and FFTPACK parts.

-John

[d3h486]:(1)>benchmark14
Octave benchmark version bm 1.4
Speed of octave 1.1.1 on rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 relative to Sun Sparc 10
Matrix inversion (LAPACK)         5.31 +/- 1.2% (56 runs)
Schur decomposition (LAPACK)      9.10 +/- 1.0% (21 runs)
Differential equation (LSODE)     0.85 +/- 2.4% (7 runs)
Fourier transforms (FFTPACK)      5.47 +/- 1.0% (35 runs)
for loop                          0.41 +/- 8.5% (20 runs)
-- Performance index (bm 1.4): 2.5