Re: Reading data from m files

[etienne]

  Hi again,

before trying harder ways, you may also want to see whether 2.9.9 does a
better job.

  Etienne

On Tue, January 16, 2007 7:10 am, Quentin Spencer said:
> Phil Fong wrote:
>>   I'm a long time Matlab user and I recently started
>> using Octave also.
>>   I have various programs (some written by me others
>> not) that export data into m-files which contain
>> something like "somevar = [ data data data; data data
>> data];"
>>   This makes it easy to load data into Matlab by
>> running the file.  However, in Octave this seems to be
>> extremely slow.  It takes over 6 minutes to read a
>> 9x19591 element matrix in using 2.1.74 from the FC4
>> package on a P4 3 GHz machine.
>>   Any ideas on speeding this up short of writing my
>> own m file parser?
>>
>
> Why a .m file? It's just as easy (and faster) to load .mat or ascii
> files in both Octave and Matlab. The problem here is that the entire
> file must be processed by the command parser. Matlab's parser has become
> much faster than Octave's in recent versions, which exaplains the speed
> difference. If you really must keep your data in a .m file, then I think
> it would not be difficult to write a parser as you suggest, which I
> suspect would be much faster.
>
> Quentin
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