Re: Speed reduction of 2.1.48 wrt 2.1.36 for structures

[David Bateman]

According to John W. Eaton <address@hidden> (on 05/28/03):
> 
> At some point (I don't know the precise version numbers or dates, but
> you could figure this out from the ChangeLogs, I suppose), structures
> were modified to be structure arrays instead.  So now there is some
> extra overhead for scalar structures.  Perhaps that accounts for the
> difference.
> 
> jwe


Dear John,

You're certainly right. The problem is this affects cases that can't be
vectorized (like the trellis in a viterbi) quite badly. Now that I know
about it, this just makes the need to convert such code into an oct-file
more pressing...

Cheers
David

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