[Scilab-users] Scilab 6 bad performances

[Samuel Gougeon]

Hello,

Le 19/02/2016 11:05, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am currently porting a Scilab package (Sysmetab, on the Scilab forge 
> but not yet Atoms packaged) and I have noticed that Scilab 6 is two 
> times slower than Scilab 5.5.2. The involved computations are very 
> diverse but are vectorized products of submatrices, sparse matrix 
> algebra and sparse linear systems solving. Until now, I did not have 
> time to make a precise profiling, but knowing in advance which type of 
> operations/computations have eventually regressed could be of great 
> help to identify the bottlenecks...

bench_run() is designed for that: 
https://help.scilab.org/docs/5.5.2/en_US/bench_run.html
On the same computer, you may run it on 5.5.2 for chosen modules, run it 
as well on 6.0, and compare results.

SG