[RyanCahoon]

Originally Posted by Ether

Ryan, could you please re-run this, without iterating? I want to eliminate the possibility that Matlab is optimizing out the iteration.

I had tried this originally, and the results were consistent with the iterated/averaged result, but I was getting some variation in timing so I wanted to take the average case. Interestingly, the average from the iterated trials was consistently higher than any of the trials running single-shot.

Linear solver 0.19269
Invert and multiply 1.8698

N = dlmread('N.dat');
d = dlmread('d.dat');

tic;
    r1 = N \ d;
t1 = toc;

% also save r1 to a file here so the computation is not optimized out.
dlmwrite('r_solver.dat', r1);

disp(['Linear solver ' num2str(t1)]);


tic;
    r2 = inv(N) * d;
t2 = toc;

% also save r2 to a file here so the computation is not optimized out.
dlmwrite('r_invmult.dat', r2);

disp(['Invert and multiply ' num2str(t2)]);