Re: How can I declare an "uint8 RowVector"?

[Roberto Vidmar]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 16-Jan-2006, Roberto Vidmar wrote:
>
> |  I need to read and process a binary file made of 553 byte records. 
> | Every record contains many data and, among these, 3 arrays of uint8 values.
> | First I wrote an octave function to store every record in an octave 
> | structure using fread and uint8 convertion funcion:
> | 
> | ...
> | RpfRecord.ret2 = uint8(fread(rpfid, 220, 'uint8'));
> | ...
> | 
> | ...but this is far to slow for my purpouses so I tried to move the 
>
> What version of Octave are you using?  With newer versions, including
> 2.1.72, you can write
>
>  RpfRecord.ret2 = fread(rpfid, 220, 'uint8=>uint8');
>  
...snip.

Thanks for your kind and quick answer. The version I'm running is 2.1.72 
(i686-pc-linux-gnu), OS is RedHat 9 updated with yum.
I followed your advice but I had no speed up. I suppose the problem is 
that I do to many fread call, this is why I'm trying to move the reading 
process into a C++ function. If I read every record with a single fread 
the speed up is impressive (more than 10 times faster) but doing so I am 
not able to split later the 553 byte uint8 vector into a structure.  My 
record structure is the following:

 RpfRecord.gpstime      =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*8');
 RpfRecord.pulsecount   =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'int8');
 RpfRecord.range        =       fread(rpfid, 4, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.intensity    =       fread(rpfid, 4, 'int16');
 RpfRecord.scanangle    =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.roll         =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.pitch        =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.heading      =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.aircraft_lat =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*8');
 RpfRecord.aircraft_lon =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*8');
 RpfRecord.aircraft_ele =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'real*4');
 RpfRecord.t1           =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'uint16');
 RpfRecord.t2           =       fread(rpfid, 1, 'uint16');
 RpfRecord.t0           = uint8(fread(rpfid, 40, 'uint8=>uint8'));
 RpfRecord.ret1         = uint8(fread(rpfid, 220, 'uint8=>uint8'));
 RpfRecord.ret2         = uint8(fread(rpfid, 220, 'uint8=>uint8'));

Roberto Vidmar

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