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[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Jan-2004, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:

| I.B Matlab 0.42  - Octave 1.22
|      b = a.^1000;
| 
| Looking at the source, Octave is using indexing for every element.
| Try replacing the nested for loop and indexing with a call to
| data and directly walking the array.  Bonus, it automatically works
| for n-D arrays.

Yes.  It would be helpful if people could identify the places like
this that need changing and either submit patches or at least report
the location of the code that needs to be updated.

Thanks,

jwe