# HG changeset patch
# User Arun Giridha
# Date 1376110385 25200
# Node ID 9336d0e1d1ec872fb4aa7148e81f1748923f62ab
# Parent  87ba70043bfcd21acc5ba7ef5a318db6a74274ab
perms.m: Use uint8 to reduce memory usage by 1/8th.

* doc/interpreter/contributors.in: Add Arun Giridha to contributors list.

* scripts/specfun/perms.m: Use uint8 to reduce memory usage by 1/8th.

diff --git a/doc/interpreter/contributors.in b/doc/interpreter/contributors.in
--- a/doc/interpreter/contributors.in
+++ b/doc/interpreter/contributors.in
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 Klaus Gebhardt
 Driss Ghaddab
 Nicolo Giorgetti
+Arun Giridha
 Michael D. Godfrey
 Michael Goffioul
 Glenn Golden
diff --git a/scripts/specfun/perms.m b/scripts/specfun/perms.m
--- a/scripts/specfun/perms.m
+++ b/scripts/specfun/perms.m
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
   if (nargin != 1)
     print_usage ();
   endif
-  vidx = [1:length(v)]';
+  vidx = uint8 ([1:length(v)]');
   n = length (vidx);
 
   if (n == 0)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     p = vidx(1);
     for j = 2:n
       B = p;
-      p = zeros (prod (2:j), n);
+      p = zeros (prod (2:j), n, "uint8");
       k = rows (B);
       idx = 1:k;
       for i = j:-1:1