Re: speed of octave interpreter

[Brian Blais]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> In any case, Octave's interpreter is known to be slow for looping and
> even slower for recursion.
>
> But, have mercy.  The original goal was not to write a blazingly fast
> interpreter.  The goal was to write something that would be reliable,
> relatively easy to maintain and extend, and that would be useful in
> a finite amount of deveopment time.  Oh, and (originally) written by
> one person who was not a compiler expert.

I certainly did not mean to be insulting, and apologize if that's the 
way it came out.  I am really impressed with Octave, and am moving more 
and more away from Matlab as a result.  I was just trying to find a 
solution to a problem I was having, teaching a programming course.


                bb

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