Re: conv2 performance

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Mar-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Michael D. Godfrey
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Jaroslav,
| >
| > Here is what I got for 3 runs using the matlab shown
| > below, and following are 3 runs on the same machine
| > (Linux qss.stanford.edu 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 18
| > 19:52:07 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
| > using your latest patches as of today (3 March).
| >
| 
| Incl. this one, I suppose:
| http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/5af0b4bb384d

Is there a particular reason to use Fortran for this with several
essentially repeated functions instead of a C++ template?  I know the
BLAS routines are unique functions, but couldn't they be handled as
template parameters, similar to the way we handle the mapping
functions in the Array<T>::map methods?

jwe