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=== replace help with man === | === replace help with man === | ||
If you use octave too much, you'll find yourself trying to use {{Codeline|help}} instead of {{Codeline|man}} on bash. This function will fix that so you can use {{Codeline|man}} in your octave instance (you can also do the opposite, create a {{Codeline|help}} alias in bash but {{Codeline|man}} has | If you use octave too much, you'll find yourself trying to use {{Codeline|help}} instead of {{Codeline|man}} on bash. This function will fix that so you can use {{Codeline|man}} in your octave instance (you can also do the opposite, create a {{Codeline|help}} alias in bash but {{Codeline|man}} has fewer characters). | ||
{{Code|alias to help|<pre> | {{Code|alias to help|<pre> | ||
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===Changing BLAS=== | ===Changing BLAS=== | ||
Many Octave functions are wrappers to optimized numerical libraries, notably BLAS and ATLAS. It is possible to achieve impressive performance gains by simply using a library tuned to your platform. One example is using OpenBLAS to replace the default BLAS implementation ([http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~nmv/2013/07/09/for-faster-r-use-openblas-instead-better-than-atlas-trivial-to-switch-to-on-ubuntu/ further details]). | Many Octave functions are wrappers to optimized numerical libraries, notably BLAS and ATLAS. It is possible to achieve impressive performance gains by simply using a library tuned to your platform. One example is using OpenBLAS to replace the default BLAS implementation ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140217072457/http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~nmv/2013/07/09/for-faster-r-use-openblas-instead-better-than-atlas-trivial-to-switch-to-on-ubuntu/ further details]). | ||
On some Linux distributions, this just takes a few commands. For instance, on Ubuntu, it usually suffices to run | On some Linux distributions, this just takes a few commands. For instance, on Ubuntu, it usually suffices to run | ||