Re: trying to optimize my octave program

[Jaroslav Hajek]

2010/3/17 Tim Rueth <address@hidden>:
> Jordi--
> Well, I certainly could, but it's >750 lines (incl. comments and white
> space), including several functions.

Oh my, 750 lines! And comments, too! I'm scared :)
No, seriously, show us the code. If you are a novice, chances are good
that there's a lot to optimize. You don't need to show everything,
surely you can identify some critical parts yourself. tic/toc may help
you.

> I doubt anyone would want to slog
> through this.  Also, the algorithm contains intellectual property which is
> hard to pull out (but I could sanitize with some effort).

What? You mean it's trade secret?
I hope you realize that you (or your employer) hold the copyright to
your code, so nobody is implicitly entitled to redistribute it or even
use it without your permission.
You can omit the list if it's really a critical material (which I
doubt, given that it's supposed to be your starter), so that it won't
be publicly readable. If you don't trust *us* to obey the law, you may
have a better luck elsewhere.

PS. did you really mean it that your first program was 750 lines? No
"hello world"? Or did you mean first "real" program?

regards


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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz