cellfun/arrayfun vs iteration

[Daniel Arteaga]

Hi,

In terms of speed, is it better to use the cellfun/arrayfun functions or 
to iterate explicitly using "for" loops?

In Matlab it appears that it is better to iterate: see 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab/browse_thread/thread/eb6fe76e1856364f, 
but Matlab has a JIT compiler and Octave doesn't, at least for the moment.

(Of course I realize the best is to avoid any iteration and to vectorize 
the code whenever possible.)

Thanks,

Daniel