Re: Very slow reading of a 2D matirx

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Bill Denney wrote:

> You didn't really choose the best method to load a matrix.  A better 
> method would be to clip off the first two and the last lines from your 
> attached .m file and change the name to something like xx.txt then do
>
> load xx.txt


Suppose I'm writing a script and would like to keep all the data in the 
script file.  Isn't this a good method?:

x = [
1 2
3 4
];

I used to think that it was, but now I can see that it can be extremely 
slow and I wonder why it is so slow.  I wouldn't want to have to include 
separate data files with scripts because then the script has to know where 
to find the data file and I wouldn't know how to arrange the meeting!

Mike



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