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| 9352 | 1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.3: |
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| 9352 | 8 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for general-purpose |
| 9 binary searching. Using this improvement, the ismember function was | |
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10 rewritten for significantly better performance. |
| 9352 | 11 |
| 12 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
| 13 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
| 14 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
| 15 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it is | |
| 16 no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays using | |
| 17 `find' for performance reasons. | |
| 18 | |
| 9888 | 19 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as indices. |
| 20 Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the ratio of true | |
| 21 elements is small enough, using a specialized code. Previously, all logical | |
| 22 matrices were always first converted to index vectors. This results in | |
| 23 savings in both memory and computing time. | |
| 24 | |
| 9480 | 25 ** sub2ind and ind2sub were reimplemented as compiled functions for better |
| 26 performance. These functions are now faster, can deliver more economized | |
| 27 results for ranges, and can reuse the index cache mechanism described in | |
| 28 previous paragraph. | |
| 29 | |
| 9449 | 30 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (plus, times, |
| 31 mtimes, and, or) have been extended to accept multiple arguments. This | |
| 32 is especially useful for summing (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects | |
| 33 (of possibly distinct types): | |
| 9408 | 34 |
| 9449 | 35 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
| 36 | |
| 9880 | 37 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These objects |
| 38 allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be managed. An example of | |
| 39 its use might be | |
| 40 | |
| 41 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); | |
| 42 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
| 43 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
| 44 close (fp); | |
| 45 | |
| 9449 | 46 ** The default behavior of assert (observed, expected) has been relaxed |
| 47 to employ less strict checking that does not require the internals | |
| 48 of the values to match. This avoids previously valid tests from | |
| 49 breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future Octave | |
| 50 versions. | |
| 51 | |
| 52 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
| 53 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
| 54 | |
| 55 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
| 56 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
| 57 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
| 9462 | 58 |
| 9873 | 59 ** The behavior of library functions ismatrix, issquare and issymmetric has |
| 60 been changed for better consistency. | |
| 61 | |
| 62 * ismatrix now returns true for all numeric and logical 2d or Nd matrices. | |
| 63 Previously, ismatrix returned false if the first or second dimension was | |
| 64 zero. Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' | |
| 65 was true. | |
| 66 | |
| 67 * issquare now returns a logical scalar, and is equivalent to the expression | |
| 68 `ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x)'. The dimension | |
| 69 is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' now yields true. | |
| 70 | |
| 71 * issymmetric now checks for symmetry instead of hermitianness. For the latter, | |
| 72 ishermitian was created. Also, logical scalar is returned rather than the | |
| 73 dimension, so `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
| 74 | |
| 75 | |
| 9462 | 76 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a function |
| 77 is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its reference which | |
| 78 function to call. A non-overloaded version does not need to exist. | |
| 9408 | 79 |
| 9547 | 80 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
| 81 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if m is a matrix and s | |
| 82 a scalar, then the statement | |
| 83 | |
| 84 m += s; | |
| 85 | |
| 86 will operate on m's data in-place if it is not shared by another variable, | |
| 87 usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
| 88 | |
| 9558 | 89 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
| 9547 | 90 |
| 91 matrix += matrix | |
| 92 matrix -= matrix | |
| 9558 | 93 matrix .*= matrix |
| 94 matrix ./= matrix | |
| 95 | |
| 9547 | 96 matrix += scalar |
| 97 matrix -= scalar | |
| 98 matrix *= scalar | |
| 99 matrix /= scalar | |
| 9558 | 100 |
| 9552 | 101 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
| 102 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
| 9547 | 103 |
| 9888 | 104 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand side must be |
| 105 a simple variable reference. | |
| 106 | |
| 107 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will also try to do | |
| 108 the operation in-place if it's argument is a temporary expresssion. | |
| 9589 | 109 |
| 110 ** The effect of comparison operators (<,>,<=,>=) when applied to complex numbers | |
| 111 has changed to be consistent with the strict ordering defined by max, min and sort. | |
| 112 More specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical comparison of | |
| 113 the pairs [abs(z), arg(z)]. Previously, only real parts were compared; this can be | |
| 114 trivially achieved by wrapping the operands in real(). | |
| 9547 | 115 |
| 9826 | 116 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has changed. Octave will |
| 117 now simplify any complex number with a zero imaginary part or any complex matrix | |
| 118 with all elements having zero imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done | |
| 119 only for positive zeros. | |
| 120 Note that the behavior of the `complex' function is unchanged and it still | |
| 121 produces a complex value even if the imaginary part is zero. | |
| 122 | |
| 9595 | 123 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary logical operations |
| 124 are now more easily amenable to compiler optimizations and are thus significantly | |
| 125 faster. | |
| 126 | |
| 127 ** Octave now allows user-defined subsasgn methods to optimize out redundant copies. | |
| 128 For more information, see the manual. | |
| 129 | |
| 9664 | 130 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to handle the expressions |
| 131 | |
| 132 M' \ v | |
| 133 M.' \ v | |
| 134 v / M | |
| 135 | |
| 136 (M is a matrix and v is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. | |
| 137 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be handled by a single call to | |
| 138 xTRTRS, with appropriate flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical transpose | |
| 139 of M. | |
| 140 | |
| 141 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix operations. | |
| 142 For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex matrix, | |
| 143 | |
| 144 RM * CM | |
| 145 | |
| 146 can now be evaluated either as | |
| 147 | |
| 148 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
| 149 | |
| 150 or as | |
| 151 | |
| 152 complex (RM) * CM, | |
| 153 | |
| 154 depending on the dimensions. The 1st form requires more temporaries and copying, | |
| 155 but halves the count of FLOPs, which normally brings better performance if | |
| 156 RM has enough rows. Previously, the 2nd form was always used. | |
| 157 | |
| 158 Matrix division is similarly affected. | |
| 159 | |
| 9717 | 160 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from factorizations. |
| 161 The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky factorizations will now automatically | |
| 162 return the triangular matrix factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it | |
| 163 won't need to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
| 164 | |
| 9722 | 165 ** The built-in "sum" function now handles the non-native summation (i.e. double precision |
| 166 sum of single or integer inputs) more efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of | |
| 167 the whole input array to doubles. Further, "sum" can now accept an "extra" option argument, | |
| 168 using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a straightforward sum, which significantly | |
| 169 improves precision if lots of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
| 9717 | 170 |
| 9745 | 171 ** The built-in "bsxfun" function now uses optimized code for certain cases where built-in |
| 172 operator handles are passed in. Namely, the optimizations concern the operators | |
| 9830 | 173 plus, minus, times, ldivide, rdivide, power, and, or (for logical arrays), the relational |
| 9745 | 174 operators eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge, and the functions min and max. |
| 9830 | 175 Optimizations only apply when both operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex |
| 176 and single/double operations will first convert both operands to a common type. | |
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| 5913 | 179 --------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 8737 | 181 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved. |
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| 8737 | 184 been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources |
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| 8737 | 198 compatibility. |
| 199 | |
| 200 ** New graphics functions: | |
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| 8737 | 213 ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system. |
| 214 | |
| 215 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK | |
| 216 toolkit is now part of Octave. This backend is disabled by | |
| 217 default. You can switch to using it with the command | |
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| 8737 | 225 where "h" is a valid figure handle. Please note that this backend |
| 226 does not yet support text objects. Obviously, this is a necessary | |
| 227 feature before it can be considered usable. We are looking for | |
| 228 volunteers to help implement this missing feature. | |
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| 8737 | 230 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed. |
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| 8737 | 234 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been |
| 235 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the | |
| 236 high level graphics handle code. | |
| 6329 | 237 |
| 8885 | 238 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed. |
| 239 | |
| 240 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
| 241 | |
| 242 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
| 243 | |
| 244 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
| 245 the pkg function). | |
| 246 | |
| 247 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
| 248 | |
| 249 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
| 250 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
| 251 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
| 8737 | 252 |
| 8885 | 253 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod |
| 254 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
| 255 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
| 256 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
| 257 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
| 258 | |
| 259 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
| 260 | |
| 261 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping | |
| 262 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
| 263 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
| 264 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
| 265 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
| 266 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
| 267 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
| 268 | |
| 269 ** Improved traceback error messages. | |
| 270 | |
| 271 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to | |
| 272 understand. They now display information about the function call | |
| 273 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at | |
| 274 the point of the error. | |
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| 8737 | 276 ** Object Oriented Programming. |
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| 8737 | 278 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own |
| 279 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For | |
| 280 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
| 281 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
| 282 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
| 283 generic versions of these functions. | |
| 284 | |
| 285 New functions related to OOP include | |
| 7189 | 286 |
| 8737 | 287 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto |
| 288 | |
| 289 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
| 7038 | 290 |
| 8747 | 291 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions. |
| 292 | |
| 293 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
| 294 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
| 295 command-style function calls are | |
| 296 | |
| 297 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
| 298 followed by a space. | |
| 299 | |
| 300 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
| 301 | |
| 302 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
| 303 operator. | |
| 304 | |
| 305 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
| 306 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
| 307 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
| 308 | |
| 309 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like | |
| 310 | |
| 311 x = load -text foo.dat | |
| 312 | |
| 313 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
| 314 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
| 315 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
| 316 | |
| 317 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat"); | |
| 318 | |
| 8737 | 319 ** Block comments. |
| 320 | |
| 8747 | 321 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
| 322 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
| 323 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
| 324 each line. For example, | |
| 5814 | 325 |
| 8747 | 326 function [s, t] = func (x, y) |
| 327 s = 2 * x; | |
| 328 #{ | |
| 329 s *= y; | |
| 330 t = y + x; | |
| 331 #} | |
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| 8747 | 334 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed. |
| 8737 | 335 |
| 336 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". | |
| 2452 | 337 |
| 8737 | 338 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
| 339 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
| 340 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
| 341 operations. | |
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| 8737 | 343 ** Single Precision data type. |
| 2452 | 344 |
| 8737 | 345 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
| 346 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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| 5995 | 348 |
| 8737 | 349 single (1) |
| 350 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
| 351 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
| 352 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
| 353 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
| 354 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
| 355 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
| 7279 | 356 |
| 8737 | 357 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
| 358 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
| 359 return single precision types. | |
| 360 | |
| 361 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal | |
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| 8755 | 371 ** Improved memory management. |
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| 373 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
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| 8755 | 376 both time and memory consumption. |
| 9128 | 377 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
| 378 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
| 379 the end of the vector. | |
| 8755 | 380 |
| 8738 | 381 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
| 382 | |
| 8755 | 383 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
| 384 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
| 8738 | 385 |
| 9006 | 386 ** Sorting and searching. |
| 387 | |
| 388 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
| 389 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted implementation | |
| 390 was added. sortrows now uses a more efficient algorithm, especially | |
| 391 in the homegeneous case. lookup is now a built-in function performing | |
| 392 a binary search, optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup | |
| 393 also works with cell arrays of strings. | |
| 394 | |
| 395 ** Range arithmetics | |
| 396 | |
| 397 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the result as a | |
| 398 range. These include negation, adding a scalar, subtracting a scalar, and | |
| 399 multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero increment are allowed and can be | |
| 400 constructed using the built-in function `ones'. | |
| 401 | |
| 402 ** Various performance improvements. | |
| 403 | |
| 404 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions was | |
| 405 improved, including: | |
| 406 | |
| 407 * logical operations | |
| 408 * comparison operators | |
| 409 * element-wise power | |
| 410 * accumarray | |
| 411 * cellfun | |
| 412 * isnan | |
| 413 * isinf | |
| 414 * isfinite | |
| 415 * nchoosek | |
| 416 * repmat | |
| 417 * strcmp | |
| 418 | |
| 8737 | 419 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
| 420 | |
| 421 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
| 422 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
| 423 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
| 424 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
| 425 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
| 426 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
| 427 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
| 428 necessary. | |
| 429 | |
| 8885 | 430 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
| 431 | |
| 432 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
| 433 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
| 434 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
| 435 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
| 436 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
| 437 | |
| 438 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
| 439 | |
| 440 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
| 441 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
| 442 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
| 443 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
| 444 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
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| 8737 | 448 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
| 449 | |
| 450 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
| 451 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
| 452 | |
| 453 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
| 454 | |
| 455 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
| 456 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
| 457 GPL-compatible license). | |
| 458 | |
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| 462 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
| 463 | |
| 464 ** New quadrature functions. | |
| 465 | |
| 466 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
| 467 | |
| 8885 | 468 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
| 469 | |
| 470 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
| 471 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
| 472 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
| 473 type, colors, etc.) | |
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| 484 cgs interp1q rectint | |
| 485 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
| 486 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
| 487 convn isstrprop roundb | |
| 488 cummin log1p rundemos | |
| 489 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
| 490 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
| 491 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
| 492 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
| 493 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
| 494 fstat perl subspace | |
| 495 full prctile symvar | |
| 496 fzero quantile treelayout | |
| 497 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
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| 501 | |
| 502 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
| 503 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
| 504 character strings. For example | |
| 505 | |
| 506 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
| 507 ==> 'foobar' | |
| 508 | |
| 509 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
| 510 Octave's strcat. | |
| 511 | |
| 512 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
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| 516 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
| 517 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
| 518 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
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