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Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability
Implemented ML-compatible whitespace and delimiter defaults
Implemented ML-compatible options: 'whitespace', treatasempty',
format string repeat count, user-specified comment style, uneven-length
output arrays, %n and %u conversion specifiers (provisionally)
Implemented processing of given-width format specifiers
* textscan.m: Add new tests. Implement EndofLine, ReturnOnError, TreatAsEmpty
options. Improve whitespace handling.
* textread.m: Add new tests Implement EndofLine option. Improve whitespace
handling.
* strread.m: Major rewrite.
| author | Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net> |
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| date | Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:05:26 -0700 |
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| 12709 | 55 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.1: |
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| 12709 | 58 ** Octave 3.4.1 is primarily a bug fixing release. |
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| 82 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will | |
| 83 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major | |
| 84 release after 3.4): | |
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| 101 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from | |
| 102 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog | |
| 103 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the | |
| 104 source distribution. | |
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| 10118 | 117 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for |
| 118 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the | |
| 119 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better | |
| 120 performance. | |
| 9352 | 121 |
| 122 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
| 123 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
| 124 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
| 10118 | 125 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it |
| 126 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays | |
| 127 using find for performance reasons. | |
| 9888 | 128 |
| 10118 | 129 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as |
| 130 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the | |
| 131 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized | |
| 132 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted | |
| 133 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and | |
| 134 computing time. | |
| 9480 | 135 |
| 10118 | 136 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled |
| 137 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster, | |
| 138 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the | |
| 139 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph. | |
| 140 | |
| 141 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus', | |
| 142 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept | |
| 143 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing | |
| 144 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types): | |
| 9408 | 145 |
| 9449 | 146 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
| 147 | |
| 10118 | 148 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These |
| 149 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be | |
| 150 managed. For example, | |
| 9880 | 151 |
| 10118 | 152 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); |
| 153 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
| 154 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
| 155 close (fp); | |
| 9880 | 156 |
| 10118 | 157 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been |
| 158 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the | |
| 159 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid | |
| 160 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future | |
| 161 Octave versions. | |
| 9449 | 162 |
| 163 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
| 164 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
| 165 | |
| 166 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
| 167 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
| 168 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
| 9462 | 169 |
| 10118 | 170 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and |
| 171 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency. | |
| 9873 | 172 |
| 10292 | 173 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric, |
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| 10292 | 175 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero. |
| 176 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, | |
| 177 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true. | |
| 9873 | 178 |
| 10118 | 179 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is |
| 180 equivalent to the expression | |
| 181 | |
| 182 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x) | |
| 183 | |
| 184 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' | |
| 185 now yields true. | |
| 9873 | 186 |
| 10118 | 187 * The `issymmetric' function now checks for symmetry instead of |
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| 10118 | 189 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so |
| 190 `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
| 9873 | 191 |
| 10118 | 192 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a |
| 193 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its | |
| 194 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not | |
| 195 need to exist. | |
| 9873 | 196 |
| 10118 | 197 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell, |
| 198 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab. | |
| 9408 | 199 |
| 10323 | 200 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators, |
| 201 as well as the `isequal' function. | |
| 202 | |
| 10118 | 203 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat', |
| 204 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional | |
| 205 arrays. | |
| 10117 | 206 |
| 9547 | 207 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
| 10118 | 208 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a |
| 209 scalar, then the statement | |
| 9547 | 210 |
| 10118 | 211 M += S; |
| 9547 | 212 |
| 10118 | 213 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another |
| 214 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
| 9547 | 215 |
| 9558 | 216 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
| 9547 | 217 |
| 218 matrix += matrix | |
| 219 matrix -= matrix | |
| 9558 | 220 matrix .*= matrix |
| 221 matrix ./= matrix | |
| 222 | |
| 9547 | 223 matrix += scalar |
| 224 matrix -= scalar | |
| 225 matrix *= scalar | |
| 226 matrix /= scalar | |
| 9558 | 227 |
| 9552 | 228 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
| 229 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
| 9547 | 230 |
| 10118 | 231 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand |
| 232 side must be a simple variable reference. | |
| 9888 | 233 |
| 10118 | 234 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will |
| 235 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a | |
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| 10118 | 238 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to |
| 239 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict | |
| 240 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More | |
| 241 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical | |
| 242 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real | |
| 243 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by wrapping the | |
| 244 operands in real(). | |
| 9547 | 245 |
| 10118 | 246 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has |
| 247 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero | |
| 248 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero | |
| 249 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for | |
| 250 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is | |
| 251 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the | |
| 252 imaginary part is zero. | |
| 9826 | 253 |
| 10118 | 254 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary |
| 255 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler | |
| 256 optimizations and are thus significantly faster. | |
| 9595 | 257 |
| 10118 | 258 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out |
| 259 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual. | |
| 9595 | 260 |
| 10453 | 261 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to |
| 10118 | 262 handle the expressions |
| 9664 | 263 |
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| 10118 | 268 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. |
| 269 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be | |
| 270 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate | |
| 10453 | 271 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical |
| 10118 | 272 transpose of M. |
| 9664 | 273 |
| 10118 | 274 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix |
| 275 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex | |
| 276 matrix, | |
| 9664 | 277 |
| 10118 | 278 RM * CM |
| 9664 | 279 |
| 280 can now be evaluated either as | |
| 281 | |
| 282 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
| 283 | |
| 284 or as | |
| 285 | |
| 286 complex (RM) * CM, | |
| 287 | |
| 10453 | 288 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more |
| 289 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally | |
| 290 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the | |
| 291 second form was always used. | |
| 9664 | 292 |
| 11111 | 293 Matrix division is similarly affected. |
| 9664 | 294 |
| 10118 | 295 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from |
| 296 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky | |
| 297 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix | |
| 298 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need | |
| 299 to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
| 9717 | 300 |
| 10118 | 301 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation |
| 302 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more | |
| 303 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input | |
| 304 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option | |
| 305 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a | |
| 306 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots | |
| 307 of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
| 9717 | 308 |
| 10118 | 309 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain |
| 310 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the | |
| 311 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times', | |
| 312 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays), | |
| 313 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the | |
| 314 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both | |
| 315 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and | |
| 316 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a | |
| 317 common type. | |
| 9745 | 318 |
| 10118 | 319 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled |
| 320 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching | |
| 321 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code | |
| 322 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when | |
| 323 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi' | |
| 324 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance. | |
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| 10208 | 330 |
| 10453 | 331 ** Matlab-style ignoring input and output function arguments using |
| 11111 | 332 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be |
| 333 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'. | |
| 334 For more details, consult the manual. | |
| 10886 | 335 |
| 10453 | 336 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has |
| 337 been removed. | |
| 10276 | 338 |
| 10453 | 339 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly |
| 340 faster in certain important cases. | |
| 10054 | 341 |
| 10292 | 342 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more |
| 343 Matlab-compatible. | |
| 344 | |
| 10406 | 345 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan, |
| 346 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow, | |
| 11111 | 347 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed. |
| 10406 | 348 |
| 10453 | 349 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer |
| 350 types efficiently using integer arithmetic. | |
| 10437 | 351 |
| 10536 | 352 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten. |
| 353 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices, | |
| 354 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns. | |
| 355 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other | |
| 356 important cases. | |
| 357 | |
| 358 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and | |
| 359 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain | |
| 360 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function, | |
| 361 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no | |
| 11111 | 362 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix |
| 363 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should | |
| 364 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e. the | |
| 365 space allocated for nonzero elements). | |
| 10536 | 366 |
| 367 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse | |
| 368 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more | |
| 11111 | 369 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the |
| 10536 | 370 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions. |
| 371 | |
| 11111 | 372 ** It is now possible to optionally employ the xGESDD LAPACK drivers |
| 373 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd(), instead | |
| 374 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable | |
| 375 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when | |
| 376 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less | |
| 10639 | 377 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices. |
| 378 | |
| 379 ** Configuration pseudo-variables, such as page_screen_output or | |
| 380 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now | |
| 381 accept a "local" option as second argument, requesting the change | |
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| 384 function [status, msg] = rm_rf (dir) | |
| 385 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local"); | |
| 386 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s"); | |
| 387 ... | |
| 388 endfunction | |
| 389 | |
| 390 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value | |
| 391 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent | |
| 392 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions | |
| 393 it calls. | |
| 394 | |
| 11111 | 395 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing |
| 396 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example, | |
| 10774 | 397 |
| 398 pkg install -forge general | |
| 399 | |
| 11111 | 400 will automatically download the latest release of the general |
| 401 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of | |
| 402 dependencies is provided. Further, | |
| 10639 | 403 |
| 10774 | 404 pkg list -forge |
| 405 | |
| 406 can be used to list all available packages. | |
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| 471 mu2lin (x, 0). | |
| 472 | |
| 473 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way | |
| 474 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using | |
| 475 readline for command-line editing. For example | |
| 476 | |
| 477 history_control ("ignoredups") | |
| 478 | |
| 479 tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list. | |
| 480 | |
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| 598 high level graphics handle code. | |
| 6329 | 599 |
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| 601 | |
| 602 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
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| 604 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
| 605 | |
| 606 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
| 607 the pkg function). | |
| 608 | |
| 609 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
| 610 | |
| 611 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
| 612 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
| 613 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
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| 616 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
| 617 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
| 618 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
| 619 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
| 620 | |
| 621 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
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| 624 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
| 625 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
| 626 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
| 627 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
| 628 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
| 629 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
| 630 | |
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| 642 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
| 643 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
| 644 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
| 645 generic versions of these functions. | |
| 646 | |
| 647 New functions related to OOP include | |
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| 650 | |
| 651 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
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| 655 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
| 656 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
| 657 command-style function calls are | |
| 658 | |
| 659 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
| 660 followed by a space. | |
| 661 | |
| 662 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
| 663 | |
| 664 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
| 665 operator. | |
| 666 | |
| 667 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
| 668 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
| 669 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
| 670 | |
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| 674 | |
| 675 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
| 676 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
| 677 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
| 678 | |
| 679 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat"); | |
| 680 | |
| 8737 | 681 ** Block comments. |
| 682 | |
| 8747 | 683 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
| 684 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
| 685 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
| 686 each line. For example, | |
| 5814 | 687 |
| 8747 | 688 function [s, t] = func (x, y) |
| 689 s = 2 * x; | |
| 690 #{ | |
| 691 s *= y; | |
| 692 t = y + x; | |
| 693 #} | |
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| 8737 | 710 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". |
| 2452 | 711 |
| 8737 | 712 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
| 713 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
| 714 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
| 715 operations. | |
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| 8737 | 717 ** Single Precision data type. |
| 2452 | 718 |
| 8737 | 719 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
| 720 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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| 5995 | 722 |
| 8737 | 723 single (1) |
| 724 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
| 725 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
| 726 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
| 727 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
| 728 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
| 729 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
| 7279 | 730 |
| 8737 | 731 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
| 732 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
| 733 return single precision types. | |
| 734 | |
| 735 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal | |
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738 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured. |
| 7279 | 739 |
| 8737 | 740 ** Improved array indexing. |
| 741 | |
| 742 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been | |
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| 8737 | 744 |
| 8755 | 745 ** Improved memory management. |
| 746 | |
| 747 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
| 748 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or | |
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| 8755 | 750 both time and memory consumption. |
| 9128 | 751 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
| 752 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
| 753 the end of the vector. | |
| 8755 | 754 |
| 8738 | 755 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
| 756 | |
| 8755 | 757 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
| 758 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
| 8738 | 759 |
| 9006 | 760 ** Sorting and searching. |
| 761 | |
| 762 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
| 10453 | 763 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted |
| 764 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more | |
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| 10453 | 766 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search, |
| 767 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with | |
| 768 cell arrays of strings. | |
| 9006 | 769 |
| 770 ** Range arithmetics | |
| 771 | |
| 10453 | 772 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the |
| 773 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar, | |
| 774 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero | |
| 775 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in | |
| 776 function `ones'. | |
| 9006 | 777 |
| 778 ** Various performance improvements. | |
| 779 | |
| 10453 | 780 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions |
| 781 was improved, including: | |
| 9006 | 782 |
| 783 * logical operations | |
| 784 * comparison operators | |
| 785 * element-wise power | |
| 786 * accumarray | |
| 787 * cellfun | |
| 788 * isnan | |
| 789 * isinf | |
| 790 * isfinite | |
| 791 * nchoosek | |
| 792 * repmat | |
| 793 * strcmp | |
| 794 | |
| 8737 | 795 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
| 796 | |
| 797 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
| 798 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
| 799 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
| 800 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
| 801 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
| 802 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
| 803 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
| 804 necessary. | |
| 805 | |
| 8885 | 806 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
| 807 | |
| 808 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
| 809 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
| 810 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
| 811 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
| 812 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
| 813 | |
| 814 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
| 815 | |
| 816 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
| 817 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
| 818 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
| 819 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
| 820 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
| 821 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision | |
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| 8885 | 823 |
| 8737 | 824 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
| 825 | |
| 826 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
| 827 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
| 828 | |
| 829 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
| 830 | |
| 831 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
| 832 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
| 833 GPL-compatible license). | |
| 834 | |
| 835 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. | |
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| 8737 | 837 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift |
| 838 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
| 839 | |
| 840 ** New quadrature functions. | |
| 841 | |
| 842 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
| 843 | |
| 8885 | 844 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
| 845 | |
| 846 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
| 847 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
| 848 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
| 849 type, colors, etc.) | |
| 850 | |
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| 8737 | 855 ** Other miscellaneous new functions. |
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858 bicgstab idivide realpow |
| 9006 | 859 cellslices info realsqrt |
| 860 cgs interp1q rectint | |
| 861 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
| 862 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
| 863 convn isstrprop roundb | |
| 864 cummin log1p rundemos | |
| 865 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
| 866 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
| 867 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
| 868 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
| 869 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
| 870 fstat perl subspace | |
| 871 full prctile symvar | |
| 872 fzero quantile treelayout | |
| 873 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
| 874 histc | |
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| 8885 | 876 ** Changes to strcat. |
| 877 | |
| 878 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
| 879 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
| 880 character strings. For example | |
| 881 | |
| 882 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
| 883 ==> 'foobar' | |
| 884 | |
| 885 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
| 886 Octave's strcat. | |
| 887 | |
| 888 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
| 889 | |
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| 8885 | 891 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been |
| 892 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
| 893 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
| 894 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
| 895 installed. | |
| 896 | |
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903 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf |
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907 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf |
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908 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd |
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909 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg |
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910 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr |
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911 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains |
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912 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements |
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913 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf |
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914 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv |
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915 clearplot is_square t_pdf |
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921 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf |
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945 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand |
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946 spchol split |
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949 See NEWS.3 for old news. |