testing Octave

[Mumit Khan]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Mike Stump wrote:

> 
> What are your times (memory) like if you use -O9 and
> -fno-inline-functions and let us know how it goes.  I am thinking that
> you'll get much better code that -O0.

Good suggestion, but it doesn't help. It would be helpful if C++ folks
would pull down blitz and try out the examples (very small pieces of code)
with various optimization. Any opt flags, even with -fno-inline-functions,
takes all my home machine VM (128M of RAM + 256M of swap) and keeps on
going before I kill it. I'll try it out at work where I have access to
machines with > 1GB of RAM, but I can't imagine this to be any different.

Currently, I can build everything with aggressive opt with Kai, and of
course the resulting code is a bit faster with egcs + n no optim.  Of
course, the good news is that blitz builds reliably with pre-1.1, and
Kudos to the C++ team for that!

Mumit