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rgbplot.m: Add new Matlab compatible function for plotting colormaps
* NEWS: Add section for 3.8 release and list of new functions.
* image.txi: Add rgbplot to documentation.
* scripts/image/module.mk: Add rgbplot to build system.
* rgbplot.m: Added new function.
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29 package does not exist for your system, you can find PCRE sources | |
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34 external ARPACK through a package manager or by compiling it | |
35 yourself. If a pre-compiled package does not exist for your system, | |
36 you can find the current ARPACK sources at | |
37 http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng | |
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40 automatic broadcasting for array operations that allows you to use | |
41 operator notation instead of calling bsxfun or expanding arrays (and | |
42 unnecessarily wasting memory) with repmat or similar idioms. For | |
43 example, to scale the columns of a matrix by the elements of a row | |
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58 le <= | |
59 eq == | |
60 gt > | |
61 ge >= | |
62 ne != ~= | |
63 and & | |
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136 base2dec, bin2dec, hex2dec: | |
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170 Octave:empty-list-elements | |
171 Octave:fortran-indexing | |
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238 ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
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252 | |
253 ** IMPORTANT note about binary incompatibility in this release: | |
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265 * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now | |
266 required to build Octave. | |
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275 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will | |
276 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major | |
277 release after 3.4): | |
278 | |
279 cquad is_duplicate_entry perror strerror | |
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288 functions are now private. | |
289 | |
290 ** The logistic_regression_derivatives and logistic_regression_likelihood | |
291 functions are now private. | |
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294 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from | |
295 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog | |
296 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the | |
297 source distribution. | |
298 | |
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9352 | 300 --------------------------------------------------------- |
301 | |
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10118 | 310 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for |
311 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the | |
312 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better | |
313 performance. | |
9352 | 314 |
315 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
316 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
317 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
10118 | 318 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it |
319 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays | |
320 using find for performance reasons. | |
9888 | 321 |
10118 | 322 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as |
323 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the | |
324 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized | |
325 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted | |
326 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and | |
327 computing time. | |
9480 | 328 |
10118 | 329 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled |
330 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster, | |
331 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the | |
332 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph. | |
333 | |
334 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus', | |
335 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept | |
336 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing | |
337 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types): | |
9408 | 338 |
9449 | 339 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
340 | |
10118 | 341 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These |
342 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be | |
343 managed. For example, | |
9880 | 344 |
10118 | 345 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); |
346 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
347 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
348 close (fp); | |
9880 | 349 |
10118 | 350 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been |
351 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the | |
352 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid | |
353 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future | |
354 Octave versions. | |
9449 | 355 |
356 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
357 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
358 | |
359 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
360 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
361 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
9462 | 362 |
10118 | 363 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and |
364 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency. | |
9873 | 365 |
10292 | 366 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric, |
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10292 | 368 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero. |
369 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, | |
370 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true. | |
9873 | 371 |
10118 | 372 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is |
373 equivalent to the expression | |
374 | |
375 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x) | |
376 | |
377 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' | |
378 now yields true. | |
9873 | 379 |
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10118 | 382 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so |
383 `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
9873 | 384 |
10118 | 385 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a |
386 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its | |
387 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not | |
388 need to exist. | |
9873 | 389 |
10118 | 390 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell, |
391 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab. | |
9408 | 392 |
10323 | 393 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators, |
394 as well as the `isequal' function. | |
395 | |
10118 | 396 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat', |
397 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional | |
398 arrays. | |
10117 | 399 |
9547 | 400 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
10118 | 401 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a |
402 scalar, then the statement | |
9547 | 403 |
10118 | 404 M += S; |
9547 | 405 |
10118 | 406 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another |
407 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
9547 | 408 |
9558 | 409 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
9547 | 410 |
411 matrix += matrix | |
412 matrix -= matrix | |
9558 | 413 matrix .*= matrix |
414 matrix ./= matrix | |
415 | |
9547 | 416 matrix += scalar |
417 matrix -= scalar | |
418 matrix *= scalar | |
419 matrix /= scalar | |
9558 | 420 |
9552 | 421 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
422 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
9547 | 423 |
10118 | 424 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand |
425 side must be a simple variable reference. | |
9888 | 426 |
10118 | 427 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will |
428 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a | |
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9589 | 430 |
10118 | 431 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to |
432 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict | |
433 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More | |
434 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical | |
435 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real | |
14188 | 436 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by converting |
437 the operands to real values with the `real' function. | |
9547 | 438 |
10118 | 439 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has |
440 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero | |
441 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero | |
442 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for | |
443 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is | |
444 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the | |
445 imaginary part is zero. | |
9826 | 446 |
10118 | 447 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary |
448 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler | |
449 optimizations and are thus significantly faster. | |
9595 | 450 |
10118 | 451 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out |
452 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual. | |
9595 | 453 |
10453 | 454 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to |
10118 | 455 handle the expressions |
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9664 | 460 |
10118 | 461 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. |
462 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be | |
463 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate | |
10453 | 464 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical |
10118 | 465 transpose of M. |
9664 | 466 |
10118 | 467 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix |
468 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex | |
469 matrix, | |
9664 | 470 |
10118 | 471 RM * CM |
9664 | 472 |
473 can now be evaluated either as | |
474 | |
475 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
476 | |
477 or as | |
478 | |
479 complex (RM) * CM, | |
480 | |
10453 | 481 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more |
482 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally | |
483 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the | |
484 second form was always used. | |
9664 | 485 |
11111 | 486 Matrix division is similarly affected. |
9664 | 487 |
10118 | 488 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from |
489 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky | |
490 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix | |
491 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need | |
492 to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
9717 | 493 |
10118 | 494 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation |
495 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more | |
496 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input | |
497 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option | |
498 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a | |
499 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots | |
500 of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
9717 | 501 |
10118 | 502 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain |
503 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the | |
504 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times', | |
505 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays), | |
506 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the | |
507 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both | |
508 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and | |
509 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a | |
510 common type. | |
9745 | 511 |
10118 | 512 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled |
513 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching | |
514 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code | |
515 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when | |
516 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi' | |
517 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance. | |
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10453 | 524 ** Matlab-style ignoring input and output function arguments using |
11111 | 525 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be |
526 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'. | |
527 For more details, consult the manual. | |
10886 | 528 |
10453 | 529 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has |
530 been removed. | |
10276 | 531 |
10453 | 532 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly |
533 faster in certain important cases. | |
10054 | 534 |
10292 | 535 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more |
536 Matlab-compatible. | |
537 | |
10406 | 538 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan, |
539 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow, | |
11111 | 540 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed. |
10406 | 541 |
10453 | 542 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer |
543 types efficiently using integer arithmetic. | |
10437 | 544 |
10536 | 545 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten. |
546 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices, | |
547 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns. | |
548 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other | |
549 important cases. | |
550 | |
551 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and | |
552 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain | |
553 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function, | |
554 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no | |
11111 | 555 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix |
556 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should | |
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10536 | 559 |
560 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse | |
561 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more | |
11111 | 562 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the |
10536 | 563 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions. |
564 | |
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14188 | 566 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd, instead |
11111 | 567 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable |
568 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when | |
569 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less | |
10639 | 570 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices. |
571 | |
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573 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now | |
574 accept a "local" option as second argument, requesting the change | |
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577 function [status, msg] = rm_rf (dir) | |
578 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local"); | |
579 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s"); | |
580 ... | |
581 endfunction | |
582 | |
583 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value | |
584 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent | |
585 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions | |
586 it calls. | |
587 | |
11111 | 588 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing |
589 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example, | |
10774 | 590 |
591 pkg install -forge general | |
592 | |
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11111 | 595 dependencies is provided. Further, |
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10774 | 597 pkg list -forge |
598 | |
599 can be used to list all available packages. | |
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664 mu2lin (x, 0). | |
665 | |
666 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way | |
667 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using | |
668 readline for command-line editing. For example | |
669 | |
670 history_control ("ignoredups") | |
671 | |
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673 | |
674 ** Octave now uses the gnulib library for improved portability and to | |
675 avoid bugs in operating system functions. | |
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734 betai fstat is_global replot values |
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736 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2: |
5913 | 737 --------------------------------------------------------- |
2452 | 738 |
8737 | 739 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved. |
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8737 | 754 works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce |
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757 | |
758 ** New graphics functions: | |
759 | |
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762 allchild ezmesh gtext specular |
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763 available_graphics_toolkits ezmeshc intwarning surfl |
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764 graphics_toolkit ezplot ishghandle trisurf |
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765 cla ezplot3 isocolors waitforbuttonpress |
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769 diffuse gcbf plotmatrix |
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8737 | 771 ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system. |
772 | |
773 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK | |
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8737 | 775 default. You can switch to using it with the command |
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781 graphics_toolkit (h, "fltk") |
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11139 | 783 where "h" is a valid figure handle. |
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8737 | 785 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed. |
786 | |
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788 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__, |
8737 | 789 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been |
790 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the | |
791 high level graphics handle code. | |
6329 | 792 |
8885 | 793 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed. |
794 | |
795 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
796 | |
797 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
798 | |
799 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
800 the pkg function). | |
801 | |
802 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
803 | |
804 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
805 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
806 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
8737 | 807 |
8885 | 808 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod |
809 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
810 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
811 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
812 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
813 | |
814 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
815 | |
816 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping | |
817 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
818 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
819 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
820 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
821 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
822 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
823 | |
824 ** Improved traceback error messages. | |
825 | |
826 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to | |
827 understand. They now display information about the function call | |
828 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at | |
829 the point of the error. | |
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8737 | 831 ** Object Oriented Programming. |
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8737 | 833 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own |
834 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For | |
835 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
836 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
837 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
838 generic versions of these functions. | |
839 | |
840 New functions related to OOP include | |
7189 | 841 |
8737 | 842 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto |
843 | |
844 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
7038 | 845 |
8747 | 846 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions. |
847 | |
848 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
849 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
850 command-style function calls are | |
851 | |
852 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
853 followed by a space. | |
854 | |
855 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
856 | |
857 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
858 operator. | |
859 | |
860 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
861 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
862 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
863 | |
864 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like | |
865 | |
866 x = load -text foo.dat | |
867 | |
868 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
869 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
870 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
871 | |
872 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat"); | |
873 | |
8737 | 874 ** Block comments. |
875 | |
8747 | 876 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
877 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
878 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
879 each line. For example, | |
5814 | 880 |
8747 | 881 function [s, t] = func (x, y) |
882 s = 2 * x; | |
883 #{ | |
884 s *= y; | |
885 t = y + x; | |
886 #} | |
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887 endfunction |
5814 | 888 |
8747 | 889 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed. |
8737 | 890 |
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8737 | 903 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". |
2452 | 904 |
8737 | 905 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
906 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
907 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
908 operations. | |
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8737 | 910 ** Single Precision data type. |
2452 | 911 |
8737 | 912 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
913 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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5995 | 915 |
8737 | 916 single (1) |
917 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
918 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
919 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
920 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
921 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
922 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
7279 | 923 |
8737 | 924 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
925 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
926 return single precision types. | |
927 | |
928 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal | |
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931 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured. |
7279 | 932 |
8737 | 933 ** Improved array indexing. |
934 | |
935 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been | |
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8737 | 937 |
8755 | 938 ** Improved memory management. |
939 | |
940 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
941 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or | |
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8755 | 943 both time and memory consumption. |
9128 | 944 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
945 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
946 the end of the vector. | |
8755 | 947 |
8738 | 948 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
949 | |
8755 | 950 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
951 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
8738 | 952 |
9006 | 953 ** Sorting and searching. |
954 | |
955 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
10453 | 956 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted |
957 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more | |
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10453 | 959 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search, |
960 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with | |
961 cell arrays of strings. | |
9006 | 962 |
963 ** Range arithmetics | |
964 | |
10453 | 965 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the |
966 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar, | |
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967 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero |
10453 | 968 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in |
969 function `ones'. | |
9006 | 970 |
971 ** Various performance improvements. | |
972 | |
10453 | 973 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions |
974 was improved, including: | |
9006 | 975 |
976 * logical operations | |
977 * comparison operators | |
978 * element-wise power | |
979 * accumarray | |
980 * cellfun | |
981 * isnan | |
982 * isinf | |
983 * isfinite | |
984 * nchoosek | |
985 * repmat | |
986 * strcmp | |
987 | |
8737 | 988 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
989 | |
990 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
991 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
992 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
993 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
994 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
995 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
996 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
997 necessary. | |
998 | |
8885 | 999 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
1000 | |
1001 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
1002 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
1003 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
1004 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
1005 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
1006 | |
1007 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
1008 | |
1009 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
1010 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
1011 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
1012 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
1013 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
1014 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision | |
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8885 | 1016 |
8737 | 1017 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
1018 | |
1019 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
1020 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
1021 | |
1022 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
1023 | |
1024 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
1025 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
1026 GPL-compatible license). | |
1027 | |
1028 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. | |
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8737 | 1030 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift |
1031 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
1032 | |
1033 ** New quadrature functions. | |
1034 | |
1035 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
1036 | |
8885 | 1037 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
1038 | |
1039 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
1040 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
1041 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
1042 type, colors, etc.) | |
1043 | |
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1051 bicgstab idivide realpow |
9006 | 1052 cellslices info realsqrt |
1053 cgs interp1q rectint | |
1054 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
1055 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
1056 convn isstrprop roundb | |
1057 cummin log1p rundemos | |
1058 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
1059 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
1060 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
1061 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
1062 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
1063 fstat perl subspace | |
1064 full prctile symvar | |
1065 fzero quantile treelayout | |
1066 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
1067 histc | |
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8885 | 1069 ** Changes to strcat. |
1070 | |
1071 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
1072 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
1073 character strings. For example | |
1074 | |
1075 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
1076 ==> 'foobar' | |
1077 | |
1078 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
1079 Octave's strcat. | |
1080 | |
1081 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
1082 | |
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1083 The help system has been mostly re-implemented in .m files to make |
8885 | 1084 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been |
1085 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
1086 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
1087 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
1088 installed. | |
1089 | |
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1092 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be |
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1096 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf |
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1097 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd |
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1098 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf |
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1099 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv |
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1100 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf |
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1101 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd |
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1102 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg |
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1103 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr |
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1104 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains |
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1105 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements |
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1106 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf |
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1107 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv |
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1108 clearplot is_square t_pdf |
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1109 clg is_stream t_rnd |
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1110 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf |
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1111 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv |
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1112 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf |
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1113 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd |
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1114 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf |
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1115 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv |
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1116 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf |
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1118 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf |
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1119 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv |
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1130 create_set spcholinv spmax |
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