Re: repmat (was "Computing distance matrix robustly")

[David Bateman]

Tom Holroyd wrote:

> > Is there an advantage to using repmat instead of kron as follows:
> > kron(ones(m, n), X)
> > vs.
> > repmat(X, m, n)
>
>
> In 2.9.3 kron is built-in so it's a huge winner.
Expect that kron is used by repmat for the 2-D cases... repmat also 
special cases when numel(X) is 1, and handles N-D cases... Its a better 
habit to use repmat as its generic and just as fast..

D.

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