Re: Octave suddenly slow

[Rob Mahurin]

On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:30 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>  There is still a penalty any time a directory with a large
> number of files is added to the load path because Octave caches the
> contents of all directories that are added to the load path.  I don't
> see a way around that.

Using a list instead of a vector should make reading N names run in O 
(N) time, rather than O(N^2) time.  Sounds like a winner to me.

>

Cheers,
Rob

--
Rob Mahurin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee                 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996                     address@hidden