Re: New manual chapter on vectorization

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 27, 2011, at 1:52 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I will push the cset soon, but this is how it's starting to turn out:
> 
>    
> http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/octave.html/Vectorization-and-Faster-Code-Execution.html
> 
> I have lots more to say about accumulation and vectorisation examples
> as well as broadcasting, but as far as satisfying the release
> requirements of 3.6, I think this close to done.
> 
> Suggestions welcome.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.


Nice work Jordi !

There are some minor formatting problems (ex: the result of "x+y" under 
broadcasting), if these are still present after you've pushed the changeset, I 
/ others can take a look.

Regarding vectorization (assignment ?) topics, I've seen many examples where 
loops are used for arrayed structures. Are things like the stuff below already 
in the manual ? If not where do they belong?

a = {1, 2:3};
[foo(1:2).bar] = deal (a{:});
foo =

  1x2 struct array containing the fields:

    bar

b = [foo.bar]
b =

   1   2   3

c = {"hello", "world"};
[foo(1:2).bar] = deal (c{:})
foo =

  1x2 struct array containing the fields:

    bar

d = {foo.bar}
d = 
{
  [1,1] = hello
  [1,2] = world
}

Ben