Re: min function very slow?

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> My eyes are deceiving me.  I came across a slow loop and to my surprise 
> traced it to the min function.  But I'm wondering how this can be 
> because I looked through the source code and the min/max commands inside 
> minmax.cc and dNDArray.cc look identical except obviously for the change 
> in sign when testing order.  I have a fairly recent version of 2.1.64.
>
> I put together a little test script.  Someone please try the attached 
> script.  My result is
>
> octave:1> minmaxtime
> looptime = 0.044205
> maxtime = 0.081752
> mintime = 7.5832
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dan

octave:1> minmaxtime
looptime = 0.035128
maxtime = 0.065962
mintime = 0.30040

Regards,

Dmitri

p.s. 2.1.64 + octave-forge-2004.11.16 / athlonMP 2000 MHz