Hi Joshua: On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:10, you wrote:
Anyone with 7.2 up & running here that could send answers to Joshua here ? Send him at isd@as.uaf.edu
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One of the curious things I have found is that SuSE runs scientific software like Octave and Scilab significantly faster than does Mandrake 8.0. For instance, I had Octave do a calculation that involved 32,000,000 floating point numbers and it was completed in about 12 minutes with SuSE 7.1. With Mandrake 8.0, I finally killed Octave when the run time exceeded an hour, for an almost identical computation. I would love to know why, in particular, Octave runs quite fast on SuSe but is excessively slow when run on Mandrake 8.0? Is there a special priority given to desktop apps in SuSE? -- Cheers, Jonathan