On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 05:30, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
I wanted to look to look empirically at the slow down that has occurred
over time with Octave.
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Any ideas?
Have we actually established that Octave has indeed been running
slower over time? There's been a lot of talk about it, but all the
measurements I have seen where by running the test suite and not a
real Octave program.
I think that before worrying about what tools to check where the
performance drop is, maybe we should get a set of programs that can be
used to confirm this slowdown.
For what is worth, I too have the feeling that Octave has been getting
slower over time, I just haven't actually got around to confirm this
with proper methods.
Always good to check assumptions, but unfortunately I have been
testing regularly with the same code. I didn't start out intending
this to be a performance benchmark so it is rather limited, but I do
have historical data captured with it.