Data layout and operator overloading in octave.

[Viral Shah]

Hello world,

I am just beginning to look into octave, and had a few questions 
about the current state of things. My goal is to implement, or at
least test the feasibility of implementing the functionality (very
limited) of the matlab*p project
(http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~cly/matlabp.html) in octave.

I have a few questions, and would appreciate any feedback and pointers:

How easy is it to change the layout of data objects (pardon me if
my terminology is not the best) in octave, to support parallel
objects ? I am beginning to look at the sparse matrix implementation
in octave-forge to get an idea..

Is operator overloading possible without modifying the octave sources ?

What is the current state of sparse matrix implementation in octave ?

There was a recent discussion about MPI support in octave. The sources
seem to have a --with-mpi option to configure, but there doesn't seem
to be MPI support in the codebase. Is there a chance of any near future
versions of octave being released with MPI support ? What would be the
best way to get MPI support in octave otherwise ?

viral

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