Speed of Octave
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Just for  fun I tried  to run my  Octave code on  a GPD Pocket.  It's a
small Intel Atom-based  computer. The code execution  time (~7 minutes)
was almost the same as it was on the (much faster) Blackbird!

It probably  means that something in  the GNU Octave on  the ppc64le is
not as optimised as it should be.

I tried to compute  the same problem in a native  program (written in C
and compiled o both computers) and the Blackbird was MUCH faster, as it
should be (0.4s vs 2.3s).


Of course,  programs like the  Octave are for learning, prototyping  and
testing, not for real-life computing.