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Remove documentation on deprecated function dispatch
author Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
date Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:27:17 -0800
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449 @end menu 449 @end menu
450 450
451 @node Sparse Functions 451 @node Sparse Functions
452 @subsubsection Sparse Functions 452 @subsubsection Sparse Functions
453 453
454 An important consideration in the use of the sparse functions of 454 Many Octave functions have been overloaded to work with either sparse or full
455 Octave is that many of the internal functions of Octave, such as 455 matrices. There is no difference in calling convention when using an
456 @dfn{diag}, cannot accept sparse matrices as an input. The sparse 456 overloaded function with a sparse matrix, however, there is also no access to
457 implementation in Octave therefore uses the @dfn{dispatch} 457 potentially sparse-specific features. At any time the sparse matrix specific
458 function to overload the normal Octave functions with equivalent 458 version of a function can be used by explicitly calling its function name.
459 functions that work with sparse matrices. However, at any time the 459
460 sparse matrix specific version of the function can be used by 460 The table below lists all of the sparse functions of Octave. Note that the
461 explicitly calling its function name. 461 names of the specific sparse forms of the functions are typically the same as
462 462 the general versions with a @dfn{sp} prefix. In the table below, and in the
463 The table below lists all of the sparse functions of Octave. Note that 463 rest of this article, the specific sparse versions of functions are used.
464 the names of the
465 specific sparse forms of the functions are typically the same as
466 the general versions with a @dfn{sp} prefix. In the table below, and the
467 rest of this article the specific sparse versions of the functions are
468 used.
469 464
470 @c Table includes in comments the missing sparse functions 465 @c Table includes in comments the missing sparse functions
471 466
472 @table @asis 467 @table @asis
473 @item Generate sparse matrices: 468 @item Generate sparse matrices: