Re: Code generation with an octave interface

[David Bateman]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2008/11/18 Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>:
>   
> > Many numeric classes in Octave, in particular everything derived from
> > Array<T> (such as the Matrix class), are actually pointers to
> > reference-counted data, using copy-on-write mechanism, so that a
> > read-only copy is always cheap.
> >     
>
> Btw, this reminded me... I have tried digging around the Octave
> source, and maybe I just haven't tried hard enough, but I still get
> really lost there. So now I ask...
>
> Is there a document somewhere that outlines in the broadest meaningful
> strokes possible, how the Octave source is laid out? I know there have
> been requests and talks before of documenting the code before, and I
> know how much work that is, but I don't want any kind of detail, just
> a rough, "visitor's guide", shall we say.
>
> I've run Doxgyen through Octave in an effort to better visualise
> what's going on, but I still get lost. :-(
>
> Thanks,
> - Jordi G. H.
>
>   
Jens Ruecknagel wrote some text a while back that might be some help.. 
See the document

http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~rueckn/Oct_Interpreter_Compiler.pdf

and in particular section 1, that describes in 20 pages the internals of 
Octave. Yes its a bit brief, but it might be a good place to start

D.



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