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 === Implement (or improve?) JIT compiling ===
-Octave's interpreter is ''''very'''' slow on loops. Implementing JIT compiling would dramatically speed up execution of these loops. This is a very big project, but a dedicated student might make a good attempt of doing this over a summer. There may be some work already in place by the time the summer comes along. The idea is to probably use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm LLVM] to aid with the JIT compilation.
+Octave's interpreter is ''very'' slow on loops. Implementing JIT compiling would dramatically speed up execution of these loops. This is a very big project, but a dedicated student might make a good attempt of doing this over a summer. There may be some work already in place by the time the summer comes along. The idea is to probably use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm LLVM] to aid with the JIT compilation.
 === Improve memory management ===
 From profiling the interpreter, it appears that a lot of time is spending allocating and deallocating memory. A better memory management algorithm might provide some improvement.