FYI, here is the blog of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student that is currently working (under the supervision of John W. Eaton) on implementing a Just-In Time compiler in Octave: http://jit-octave.blogspot.fr/ -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594