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Ugrade time functions to accept millisecond format string FFF (Bug #34586)
* datestr.m: Add millisecond FFF format. Change numerical formats 21,22,29
to match Matlab. Remove unused persistent variables. Vectorize some for
loops. Use strrep rather than regexp where possible for speed.
* datevec.m: Add millisecond FFF format. Use strrep rather than regexp where
possible for speed.
* datenum.m: Update docstring. Use modern coding style. Only calculate
second output argument if requested. Allow cellstr inputs.
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| 145 * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now | |
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| 149 subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir. | |
| 150 | |
| 12709 | 151 Any future Octave 3.4.x release versions should remain binary |
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| 12709 | 154 |
| 155 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will | |
| 156 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major | |
| 157 release after 3.4): | |
| 158 | |
| 159 cquad is_duplicate_entry perror strerror | |
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| 168 functions are now private. | |
| 169 | |
| 170 ** The logistic_regression_derivatives and logistic_regression_likelihood | |
| 171 functions are now private. | |
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| 174 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from | |
| 175 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog | |
| 176 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the | |
| 177 source distribution. | |
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| 9352 | 180 --------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 10118 | 190 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for |
| 191 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the | |
| 192 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better | |
| 193 performance. | |
| 9352 | 194 |
| 195 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
| 196 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
| 197 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
| 10118 | 198 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it |
| 199 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays | |
| 200 using find for performance reasons. | |
| 9888 | 201 |
| 10118 | 202 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as |
| 203 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the | |
| 204 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized | |
| 205 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted | |
| 206 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and | |
| 207 computing time. | |
| 9480 | 208 |
| 10118 | 209 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled |
| 210 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster, | |
| 211 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the | |
| 212 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph. | |
| 213 | |
| 214 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus', | |
| 215 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept | |
| 216 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing | |
| 217 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types): | |
| 9408 | 218 |
| 9449 | 219 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
| 220 | |
| 10118 | 221 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These |
| 222 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be | |
| 223 managed. For example, | |
| 9880 | 224 |
| 10118 | 225 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); |
| 226 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
| 227 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
| 228 close (fp); | |
| 9880 | 229 |
| 10118 | 230 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been |
| 231 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the | |
| 232 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid | |
| 233 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future | |
| 234 Octave versions. | |
| 9449 | 235 |
| 236 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
| 237 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
| 238 | |
| 239 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
| 240 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
| 241 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
| 9462 | 242 |
| 10118 | 243 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and |
| 244 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency. | |
| 9873 | 245 |
| 10292 | 246 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric, |
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| 10292 | 248 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero. |
| 249 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, | |
| 250 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true. | |
| 9873 | 251 |
| 10118 | 252 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is |
| 253 equivalent to the expression | |
| 254 | |
| 255 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x) | |
| 256 | |
| 257 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' | |
| 258 now yields true. | |
| 9873 | 259 |
| 10118 | 260 * The `issymmetric' function now checks for symmetry instead of |
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| 10118 | 262 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so |
| 263 `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
| 9873 | 264 |
| 10118 | 265 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a |
| 266 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its | |
| 267 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not | |
| 268 need to exist. | |
| 9873 | 269 |
| 10118 | 270 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell, |
| 271 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab. | |
| 9408 | 272 |
| 10323 | 273 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators, |
| 274 as well as the `isequal' function. | |
| 275 | |
| 10118 | 276 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat', |
| 277 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional | |
| 278 arrays. | |
| 10117 | 279 |
| 9547 | 280 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
| 10118 | 281 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a |
| 282 scalar, then the statement | |
| 9547 | 283 |
| 10118 | 284 M += S; |
| 9547 | 285 |
| 10118 | 286 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another |
| 287 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
| 9547 | 288 |
| 9558 | 289 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
| 9547 | 290 |
| 291 matrix += matrix | |
| 292 matrix -= matrix | |
| 9558 | 293 matrix .*= matrix |
| 294 matrix ./= matrix | |
| 295 | |
| 9547 | 296 matrix += scalar |
| 297 matrix -= scalar | |
| 298 matrix *= scalar | |
| 299 matrix /= scalar | |
| 9558 | 300 |
| 9552 | 301 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
| 302 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
| 9547 | 303 |
| 10118 | 304 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand |
| 305 side must be a simple variable reference. | |
| 9888 | 306 |
| 10118 | 307 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will |
| 308 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a | |
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| 9589 | 310 |
| 10118 | 311 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to |
| 312 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict | |
| 313 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More | |
| 314 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical | |
| 315 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real | |
| 316 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by wrapping the | |
| 317 operands in real(). | |
| 9547 | 318 |
| 10118 | 319 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has |
| 320 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero | |
| 321 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero | |
| 322 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for | |
| 323 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is | |
| 324 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the | |
| 325 imaginary part is zero. | |
| 9826 | 326 |
| 10118 | 327 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary |
| 328 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler | |
| 329 optimizations and are thus significantly faster. | |
| 9595 | 330 |
| 10118 | 331 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out |
| 332 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual. | |
| 9595 | 333 |
| 10453 | 334 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to |
| 10118 | 335 handle the expressions |
| 9664 | 336 |
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| 9664 | 340 |
| 10118 | 341 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. |
| 342 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be | |
| 343 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate | |
| 10453 | 344 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical |
| 10118 | 345 transpose of M. |
| 9664 | 346 |
| 10118 | 347 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix |
| 348 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex | |
| 349 matrix, | |
| 9664 | 350 |
| 10118 | 351 RM * CM |
| 9664 | 352 |
| 353 can now be evaluated either as | |
| 354 | |
| 355 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
| 356 | |
| 357 or as | |
| 358 | |
| 359 complex (RM) * CM, | |
| 360 | |
| 10453 | 361 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more |
| 362 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally | |
| 363 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the | |
| 364 second form was always used. | |
| 9664 | 365 |
| 11111 | 366 Matrix division is similarly affected. |
| 9664 | 367 |
| 10118 | 368 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from |
| 369 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky | |
| 370 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix | |
| 371 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need | |
| 372 to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
| 9717 | 373 |
| 10118 | 374 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation |
| 375 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more | |
| 376 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input | |
| 377 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option | |
| 378 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a | |
| 379 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots | |
| 380 of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
| 9717 | 381 |
| 10118 | 382 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain |
| 383 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the | |
| 384 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times', | |
| 385 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays), | |
| 386 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the | |
| 387 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both | |
| 388 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and | |
| 389 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a | |
| 390 common type. | |
| 9745 | 391 |
| 10118 | 392 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled |
| 393 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching | |
| 394 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code | |
| 395 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when | |
| 396 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi' | |
| 397 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance. | |
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| 10208 | 403 |
| 10453 | 404 ** Matlab-style ignoring input and output function arguments using |
| 11111 | 405 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be |
| 406 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'. | |
| 407 For more details, consult the manual. | |
| 10886 | 408 |
| 10453 | 409 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has |
| 410 been removed. | |
| 10276 | 411 |
| 10453 | 412 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly |
| 413 faster in certain important cases. | |
| 10054 | 414 |
| 10292 | 415 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more |
| 416 Matlab-compatible. | |
| 417 | |
| 10406 | 418 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan, |
| 419 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow, | |
| 11111 | 420 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed. |
| 10406 | 421 |
| 10453 | 422 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer |
| 423 types efficiently using integer arithmetic. | |
| 10437 | 424 |
| 10536 | 425 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten. |
| 426 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices, | |
| 427 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns. | |
| 428 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other | |
| 429 important cases. | |
| 430 | |
| 431 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and | |
| 432 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain | |
| 433 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function, | |
| 434 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no | |
| 11111 | 435 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix |
| 436 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should | |
| 437 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e. the | |
| 438 space allocated for nonzero elements). | |
| 10536 | 439 |
| 440 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse | |
| 441 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more | |
| 11111 | 442 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the |
| 10536 | 443 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions. |
| 444 | |
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| 446 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd(), instead | |
| 447 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable | |
| 448 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when | |
| 449 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less | |
| 10639 | 450 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices. |
| 451 | |
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| 459 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s"); | |
| 460 ... | |
| 461 endfunction | |
| 462 | |
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| 464 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent | |
| 465 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions | |
| 466 it calls. | |
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| 469 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example, | |
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| 472 | |
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| 474 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of | |
| 475 dependencies is provided. Further, | |
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| 544 mu2lin (x, 0). | |
| 545 | |
| 546 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way | |
| 547 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using | |
| 548 readline for command-line editing. For example | |
| 549 | |
| 550 history_control ("ignoredups") | |
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| 8737 | 636 compatibility. |
| 637 | |
| 638 ** New graphics functions: | |
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645 cla ezplot3 isocolors waitforbuttonpress |
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| 652 | |
| 653 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK | |
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| 8737 | 655 default. You can switch to using it with the command |
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| 8737 | 665 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed. |
| 666 | |
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| 8737 | 669 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been |
| 670 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the | |
| 671 high level graphics handle code. | |
| 6329 | 672 |
| 8885 | 673 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed. |
| 674 | |
| 675 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
| 676 | |
| 677 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
| 678 | |
| 679 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
| 680 the pkg function). | |
| 681 | |
| 682 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
| 683 | |
| 684 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
| 685 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
| 686 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
| 8737 | 687 |
| 8885 | 688 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod |
| 689 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
| 690 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
| 691 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
| 692 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
| 693 | |
| 694 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
| 695 | |
| 696 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping | |
| 697 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
| 698 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
| 699 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
| 700 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
| 701 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
| 702 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
| 703 | |
| 704 ** Improved traceback error messages. | |
| 705 | |
| 706 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to | |
| 707 understand. They now display information about the function call | |
| 708 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at | |
| 709 the point of the error. | |
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| 714 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For | |
| 715 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
| 716 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
| 717 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
| 718 generic versions of these functions. | |
| 719 | |
| 720 New functions related to OOP include | |
| 7189 | 721 |
| 8737 | 722 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto |
| 723 | |
| 724 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
| 7038 | 725 |
| 8747 | 726 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions. |
| 727 | |
| 728 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
| 729 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
| 730 command-style function calls are | |
| 731 | |
| 732 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
| 733 followed by a space. | |
| 734 | |
| 735 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
| 736 | |
| 737 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
| 738 operator. | |
| 739 | |
| 740 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
| 741 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
| 742 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
| 743 | |
| 744 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like | |
| 745 | |
| 746 x = load -text foo.dat | |
| 747 | |
| 748 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
| 749 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
| 750 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
| 751 | |
| 752 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat"); | |
| 753 | |
| 8737 | 754 ** Block comments. |
| 755 | |
| 8747 | 756 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
| 757 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
| 758 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
| 759 each line. For example, | |
| 5814 | 760 |
| 8747 | 761 function [s, t] = func (x, y) |
| 762 s = 2 * x; | |
| 763 #{ | |
| 764 s *= y; | |
| 765 t = y + x; | |
| 766 #} | |
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| 8747 | 769 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed. |
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| 2452 | 784 |
| 8737 | 785 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
| 786 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
| 787 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
| 788 operations. | |
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| 8737 | 792 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
| 793 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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| 797 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
| 798 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
| 799 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
| 800 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
| 801 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
| 802 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
| 7279 | 803 |
| 8737 | 804 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
| 805 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
| 806 return single precision types. | |
| 807 | |
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| 8737 | 813 ** Improved array indexing. |
| 814 | |
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| 8737 | 817 |
| 8755 | 818 ** Improved memory management. |
| 819 | |
| 820 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
| 821 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or | |
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| 8755 | 823 both time and memory consumption. |
| 9128 | 824 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
| 825 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
| 826 the end of the vector. | |
| 8755 | 827 |
| 8738 | 828 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
| 829 | |
| 8755 | 830 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
| 831 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
| 8738 | 832 |
| 9006 | 833 ** Sorting and searching. |
| 834 | |
| 835 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
| 10453 | 836 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted |
| 837 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more | |
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| 10453 | 839 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search, |
| 840 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with | |
| 841 cell arrays of strings. | |
| 9006 | 842 |
| 843 ** Range arithmetics | |
| 844 | |
| 10453 | 845 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the |
| 846 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar, | |
| 847 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero | |
| 848 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in | |
| 849 function `ones'. | |
| 9006 | 850 |
| 851 ** Various performance improvements. | |
| 852 | |
| 10453 | 853 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions |
| 854 was improved, including: | |
| 9006 | 855 |
| 856 * logical operations | |
| 857 * comparison operators | |
| 858 * element-wise power | |
| 859 * accumarray | |
| 860 * cellfun | |
| 861 * isnan | |
| 862 * isinf | |
| 863 * isfinite | |
| 864 * nchoosek | |
| 865 * repmat | |
| 866 * strcmp | |
| 867 | |
| 8737 | 868 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
| 869 | |
| 870 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
| 871 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
| 872 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
| 873 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
| 874 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
| 875 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
| 876 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
| 877 necessary. | |
| 878 | |
| 8885 | 879 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
| 880 | |
| 881 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
| 882 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
| 883 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
| 884 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
| 885 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
| 886 | |
| 887 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
| 888 | |
| 889 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
| 890 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
| 891 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
| 892 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
| 893 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
| 894 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision | |
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| 8885 | 896 |
| 8737 | 897 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
| 898 | |
| 899 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
| 900 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
| 901 | |
| 902 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
| 903 | |
| 904 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
| 905 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
| 906 GPL-compatible license). | |
| 907 | |
| 908 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. | |
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| 8737 | 910 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift |
| 911 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
| 912 | |
| 913 ** New quadrature functions. | |
| 914 | |
| 915 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
| 916 | |
| 8885 | 917 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
| 918 | |
| 919 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
| 920 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
| 921 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
| 922 type, colors, etc.) | |
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| 8737 | 928 ** Other miscellaneous new functions. |
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931 bicgstab idivide realpow |
| 9006 | 932 cellslices info realsqrt |
| 933 cgs interp1q rectint | |
| 934 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
| 935 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
| 936 convn isstrprop roundb | |
| 937 cummin log1p rundemos | |
| 938 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
| 939 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
| 940 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
| 941 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
| 942 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
| 943 fstat perl subspace | |
| 944 full prctile symvar | |
| 945 fzero quantile treelayout | |
| 946 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
| 947 histc | |
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| 8885 | 949 ** Changes to strcat. |
| 950 | |
| 951 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
| 952 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
| 953 character strings. For example | |
| 954 | |
| 955 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
| 956 ==> 'foobar' | |
| 957 | |
| 958 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
| 959 Octave's strcat. | |
| 960 | |
| 961 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
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| 8885 | 964 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been |
| 965 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
| 966 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
| 967 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
| 968 installed. | |
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972 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be |
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976 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf |
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977 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd |
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978 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf |
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979 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv |
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980 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf |
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981 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd |
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982 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg |
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983 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr |
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984 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains |
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985 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements |
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986 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf |
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987 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv |
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988 clearplot is_square t_pdf |
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989 clg is_stream t_rnd |
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990 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf |
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991 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv |
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992 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf |
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993 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd |
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994 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf |
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995 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv |
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997 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd |
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998 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf |
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999 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv |
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1002 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd |
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