The claim that Octave is as fast or faster than Matlab is simply absurd and untrue. Octave is consistently the slowest language on all of our benchmarks, often

The claim that Octave is as fast or faster than Matlab is simply absurd and untrue. Octave is consistently the slowest language on all of our benchmarks, often by orders of magnitude [http://julialang.org/ http://julialang.org/], even on heavily vectorized code.