Re: slow char({str})

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Ben Abbott<address@hidden> wrote:
> I noticed a substantial amount of time is needed to convert a cell string
> into a string
>
> octave:50> tic; char ({repmat("a", [1, 100000])}); toc
> Elapsed time is 11.9 seconds.
>
> but ...
>
> octave:51> tic; char ({repmat("a", [1, 100000])}{1}); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.001117 seconds.
>
> Can someone with skilled in c++ take a look?
>
> Ben
>

Please check
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4ff6f8efdda2

also transplanted into 3.2.x.

thanks

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