Re: parcellfun and rand

[Francesco Potortì]

I had written:

>>> Unlike cellfun, parcellfun appears to re-initialize the rand function in 
>>> each
>>> call. This is counter-intuitive.
>>
>>This has been already fixed; please upgrade your package. Parcellfun
>>now broadcasts the original seed to each forked process and
>>reinitializes based on that and the thread number. Unfortunately,
>>there is no feasible way to make parcellfun behave identically to
>>cellfun in this regard.
>
>This is great news, thanks!

For those interested, Jaroslav has updated parcellfun.m, but has not
produced a new package, so you should download the new parcellfun.m from

http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/general/inst/parcellfun.m?revision=7423

and install it in place of the parcellfun.m from the 'general' package 1.2.1.

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