Octave / Various / fc-bench package

         Current development release
         Automatic installation, all in one (recommended)
         Manual installation
         Version history
         Old development releases

The  Octave package allows to benchmark functions and much more

  Current development release

Version	date	package	full archives	install	User guide
0.1.2	February 17, 2020	(25 Ko)	(90 Ko) (154 Ko) (59 Ko)	(3 Ko)	(651 Ko)

This package was tested on various OS with Octave releases :

It is not compatible with Octave releases prior to 4.2.0. Here are the links used to install the Octave releases tested :

• Linux : sources from https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ ;
• MacOS : release 4.4.1 installed with dmg file from http://octave-app.org/Download.html, releases 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 installed with Homebrew ;
• Windows : binaries from https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/.

  Automatic installation, all in one (recommended)

For this method, one just has to get/download the install file ofc_bench_install.m Thereafter, one runs it under Octave. This script downloads, extracts and configures the fc-bench and the required package fc-tools in the current directory.

For example, to install this package in ~/Octave/packages directory, one has to copy the file ofc_bench_install.m in the ~/Octave/packages directory. Then in a Octave terminal run the following commands

where dirname is the installation directory (string).
This is the output of the ofc_bench_install command on a Linux computer :

The complete package (i.e. with all the other needed packages) is stored in the directory ~/Octave/packages/fc-bench-full and, for each Octave session, one have to set the package by :

For uninstalling, one just has to delete directory

  Manual installation

• Download one of full archives which contains all the needed toolboxes : fc-tools and fc-bench.
• Extract the archive in a folder.
• Set Octave path by adding path of needed packages.

For example under Linux, to install this package in ~/Octave/packages directory, one can download fc-bench-0.1.2-full.tar.gz and extract it in the ~/Octave/packages directory :

For each Octave session, one has to set the package by adding paths of all packages :

  Version history

• 0.1.2 (February 17, 2020) : minor change in configure function.
• 0.1.1 (December 19, 2019) : some changes in the code and addition of the options before and after to the bench function ;
• 0.0.6 (March 6, 2019) : Changing installation and configuration files
• 0.0.5 (October 14, 2018) : adding manual installation
• 0.0.4 (May 10, 2018) :
  • using of fc-tools package version 0.0.23.
  • Adding ’dir’ option to the installation function mfc_bench_install,
  • Improving fc_bench.demos.permLU function to work with non-regular matrices.
• 0.0.3 (April 26, 2018) :
  • using of fc-tools package version 0.0.22.
  • Changing 2nd output of ’setfun’ functions : array of bdata objects -> cell array bdata objects. Trouble when modifying objects stored in array.
  • Modifying fc_bench.init() to display versions of the toolboxes used.
  • Adding functions fc_bench.info and fc_bench.path.
  • Adding function fc_bench.gitinfo() for code maintenace purpose.
• 0.0.2 (April 20, 2018) : first version for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

  Old development releases

Version	date	package	full archives	install	User guide
0.1.1	December 19, 2019	(24 Ko)	(83 Ko) (143 Ko) (54 Ko)	(3 Ko)	(651 Ko)
0.0.6	March 6, 2018	(24 Ko)	(73 Ko) (129 Ko) (47 Ko)	(3 Ko)
0.0.5	October 14, 2018	(23 Ko)	(113 Ko) (226 Ko) (66 Ko)	(2 Ko)	(577 Ko)
0.0.4	May 21, 2018	(22 Ko)		(2 Ko)

Version	date	package	archives	install	User guide
0.0.3	April 26, 2018	(22 Ko)	(22 Ko) (37 Ko) (20 Ko)	(2 Ko)	(414 Ko)
0.0.2	April 20, 2018	(22 Ko)	(22 Ko) (36 Ko) (19 Ko)	(2 Ko)