Hi - I've recently installed Debian 2.1 on my desktop machine (Pentium Pro 200, 64 MB RAM, 64 MB swap), dual-booting with WinNT. I made the switch to use Scilab under Linux for the easy linking to Fortran object files. (Showing my age...)
One problem: My Scilab code runs about half as fast in Linux as it does in WinNT. This is for identical Scilab-only code (no linking) on the identical machine. How can I speed things up? In both OS's I installed binaries for Pentium machines, but compiling from source is an option for the Linux port of Scilab. Would that make any difference? Scilab is an X11 application; I'm using fvwm2, which I understand is pretty light. Any tips or pointers to helpful info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rob Brendel
