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by jordigh 4707 days ago
The "code optimiser" you're talking about is "just" a JIT compiler. Loops in Octave are slow. They were slow in Matlab too, but then they got a JIT compiler.

We're currently working on a getting a JIT compiler into Octave too. Here are two GSoC blogs about it:

    http://octave-jitc.blogspot.ca/
    http://jit-octave.blogspot.ca/