Re: nnz and char

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Jan-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > jwe
| >
| I wouldn't just do a straight swap. I'd rather do
| 
| nonzero -> nnz
| nnz -> sz_nnz
| 
| or something similar..

Yes, that's what I was suggesting:

| > think that will just lead to more mistakes like I just made.  Also,
| > perhaps we could rename the nonzero function at the same time, to make
| > it clear what that really means, and how it is different from nnz
| > (which, as I understand it, is supposed to mean the number of nonzero
| > elements stored in the matrix).  What does nonzero count?  nnz +/- what?

| nonzero doesn't really describe the fact that it 
| is really the amount of memory allocated to the hold sparse values...

OK, then how about capacity, since we already have that?  From Sparse.h:

  // Note that capacity and nnz are the amount of storage for non-zero
  // elements, while nonzero is the actual number of non-zero terms
  octave_idx_type capacity (void) const { return rep->length (); }
  octave_idx_type nnz (void) const { return capacity (); }


jwe



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