Re: Octave crashes on old MEX-files: how can I detect/prevent this?

[Julien Bect]

Le 07/12/2016 à 15:13, Sebastian Schöps a écrit :
> siko1056 wrote
> > If there was a clean and priceless solution of detecting this, I would
> > agree. But the intention to leave the Octave language by using
> > oct/mex-files is to get fast code. I would bother more passing expensive
> > checks each time calling a oct/mex-file, than recompiling everything at
> > startup, if necessary.
> I'd say stability is more important than performance. Furthermore, for a
> fast code, I typically do not call an oct-file several times but I rather
> call it once with a "heavy" computation. In this case a single additional
> check when calling seems tolerable to me.

(continuing discussion from the help list)

I am not exactly familiar with the loading mechanism of mex-files, but I 
believe that the dynamic linking is done once and for all when you first 
use the mex-file (?), not every time you call the function.

Am I right ?