strace of exist function for a variable

[David Bateman]

Has any one tried to do an strace of octave while running the exist 
function. It appears that exist("<var>","var") will search the patch for 
dot-m and oct-files even though a variable was explicitly asked for. 
This certainly makes this significantly slower than it needs to be. 
Also, strace
appears to show that the path is being searched twice, by exist!! It 
seems to me that there are some rather simple improvements in the speed 
of the exist function that might be made...

Regards
David

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