Re: rename, save `whos`

[Daniel Heiserer]

> | Hi,
> | is there a way to rename a matrix.
> | I mean a real "move" not a "copy"
> | and a delete.
> |
> | The thing is that I have thousands of matrices in my
> | memory and I do not want to shuffle
> | GB of ram around.....
> 
> Someone else already pointed out that an assignment like
> 
>   b = a;
> 
> doesn't actually make a copy of the data.  Instead, it simply adds a
> new symbol to the symbol table and increments a reference count.  A
> copy of the data will be made if you later modify either a or b (by
> doing something like b(1,2) = 3, for example).
> 

I am really impressed. :-)


Thanks so far
daniel



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