octave-dev

[OctDev] Updated: octave-2.1.71-2

[James R. P. <ant...@ya...>]

INFO
====
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.

GNU Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily
intended for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient command-line
interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

Octave Home Page: http://www.octave.org

UPDATE
======

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your system.  Save it
and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'octave' from the 'Math'
category. Then click on the 'skip' field next to 'octave' until '2.1.71-2' is
displayed.

DOWNLOAD:
=========
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James R. Phillips

[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
> ====
> 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.
>
> GNU Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level
> language, primarily
> intended for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient
> command-line
> interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
>
> Octave Home Page: http://www.octave.org
>
> UPDATE
> ======
>
> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
> http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
> system.  Save it
> and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'octave' from the 'Math'
> category. Then click on the 'skip' field next to 'octave' until
> '2.1.71-2' is
> displayed.
>
> DOWNLOAD:
> =========
> Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com)
> aren't allowed due
> to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to find
> a mirror which
> has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
>
> http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>
>
> QUESTIONS:
> ==========
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> appropriate place.
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[OctDev] RE: Updated: octave-2.1.71-2

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

I apologize, I was completely in error.  I mixed up which screen I was
looking at.  The octave-2.1.71-2 build you just put out was fast for matrix
ops as well.  The octave_config_info reflects both FFTW and lapack/blas
libs.

So sorry for the bad report!

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Billings [mailto:pbi...@sy...]
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:23 AM
> To: ant...@ya...
> Cc: mai...@oc...; oct...@li...
> Subject: RE: Updated: octave-2.1.71-2
>
>
> 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
> > ====
> > 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.
> >
> > GNU Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level
> > language, primarily
> > intended for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient
> > command-line
> > interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
> >
> > Octave Home Page: http://www.octave.org
> >
> > UPDATE
> > ======
> >
> > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now"
> link on the
> > http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
> > system.  Save it
> > and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'octave' from the 'Math'
> > category. Then click on the 'skip' field next to 'octave' until
> > '2.1.71-2' is
> > displayed.
> >
> > DOWNLOAD:
> > =========
> > Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com)
> > aren't allowed due
> > to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to find
> > a mirror which
> > has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> >
> >
> > QUESTIONS:
> > ==========
> > If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing
> > list is the
> > appropriate place.
> >
> >
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