[OctDev] RE: Updated: octave-2.1.71-2

[Billings, P. <PBi...@SY...>]

James,

Good job on the FFTW packaging.  I can confirm identical FFT speeds with a
version that I had explicitly built to work with FFTW.

On the down side, however: matrix operations are slower.  Almost 70% slower
for the 256x256 matrix multiply I just tested.
octave_config_info('BLAS_LIBS') returns a blank string, whereas the previous
build had returned "-llapack -lblas".  I didn't build these libraries, so
they must be coming from Cygwin.  Perhaps they should be added to the
dependency tree for octave?

Incidentally, your long-term goal of getting ATLAS into the
build/installation procedure will be well worth it.  The matrix multiply
when using the above mentioned libblas is almost a factor of 10 slower than
when using ATLAS.

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James R. Phillips [mailto:ant...@ya...]
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:10 AM
> To: cyg...@cy...
> Cc: mai...@oc...; oct...@li...
> Subject: Updated: octave-2.1.71-2
>
>
> INFO
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> The cygwin octave package has been updated to release 2.1.71-2.
>
> Changes:
>
>  +Rebuilt to link against fftw3 libraries, for faster fft operations.
>  +Links with --enable-auto-image-base flag to reduce need for
> rebasing dlls.
>  +Fixed packaging error related to /usr/share/info/dir
>
> More information in the octave-2.1.71.README file.
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