Slowup in 2.1.54

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Feb-2004, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

| I've just rerun the sciview tests, sinced I'd presumed that all of the recent
| changes in Octave would result in significantly faster code. It basically
| is just that the last test is much slower. I think the [] operator is
| slower in 2.1.54, though I need to check some more. Any clues?

The [] operator for creating arrays was modified to work with N-d
numeric arrays, so it could be somewhat slower.  It might be that the
slow part is the way indexing and bounds checking works for inserting
one N-d array into another, but that's just a guess.

jwe