[octave] file i/o performance

[Mark Robinson]

Hi.  Newbie question.

I'm a new user of octave (using 2.1.62 on Mac OS X).  I'm trying to 
port over some MATLAB code and am finding reading a text file 
considerably slower in octave than in MATLAB 7.0.  Like, about 5 times 
slower, which seems to me like it is not an artifact of octave ... it's 
probably the code.

Basically, the program makes a bunch of 'fgetl' calls and, depending on 
the content of the line (where it uses 'strrep' or 'strtok'), sticks it 
in one of two cell arrays.  Are any of these known to be slower in 
octave, or is there something to do with cell arrays that I should know 
about?

It's actually a FASTA-formatted file for protein/DNA sequences.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
Mark



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