Re: [octave] file i/o performance

[Keith Goodman]

On 5/19/05, Mark Robinson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

I've noticed that string functions in Octave are usually m files. In
Matlab they are usually compiled. That's the case for strrep and
(octave-forge) strtok.

I would like a compiled version of strcmp. I use that a lot. I've
never used strtok---I thought the function name was a typo.



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