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| date | Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:56:19 -0700 |
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| 64 * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now | |
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| 68 subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir. | |
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| 74 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will | |
| 75 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major | |
| 76 release after 3.4): | |
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| 87 functions are now private. | |
| 88 | |
| 89 ** The logistic_regression_derivatives and logistic_regression_likelihood | |
| 90 functions are now private. | |
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| 93 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from | |
| 94 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog | |
| 95 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the | |
| 96 source distribution. | |
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| 10118 | 109 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for |
| 110 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the | |
| 111 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better | |
| 112 performance. | |
| 9352 | 113 |
| 114 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
| 115 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
| 116 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
| 10118 | 117 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it |
| 118 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays | |
| 119 using find for performance reasons. | |
| 9888 | 120 |
| 10118 | 121 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as |
| 122 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the | |
| 123 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized | |
| 124 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted | |
| 125 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and | |
| 126 computing time. | |
| 9480 | 127 |
| 10118 | 128 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled |
| 129 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster, | |
| 130 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the | |
| 131 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph. | |
| 132 | |
| 133 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus', | |
| 134 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept | |
| 135 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing | |
| 136 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types): | |
| 9408 | 137 |
| 9449 | 138 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
| 139 | |
| 10118 | 140 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These |
| 141 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be | |
| 142 managed. For example, | |
| 9880 | 143 |
| 10118 | 144 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); |
| 145 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
| 146 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
| 147 close (fp); | |
| 9880 | 148 |
| 10118 | 149 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been |
| 150 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the | |
| 151 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid | |
| 152 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future | |
| 153 Octave versions. | |
| 9449 | 154 |
| 155 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
| 156 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
| 157 | |
| 158 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
| 159 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
| 160 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
| 9462 | 161 |
| 10118 | 162 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and |
| 163 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency. | |
| 9873 | 164 |
| 10292 | 165 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric, |
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| 10292 | 167 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero. |
| 168 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, | |
| 169 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true. | |
| 9873 | 170 |
| 10118 | 171 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is |
| 172 equivalent to the expression | |
| 173 | |
| 174 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x) | |
| 175 | |
| 176 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' | |
| 177 now yields true. | |
| 9873 | 178 |
| 10118 | 179 * The `issymmetric' function now checks for symmetry instead of |
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| 10118 | 181 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so |
| 182 `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
| 9873 | 183 |
| 10118 | 184 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a |
| 185 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its | |
| 186 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not | |
| 187 need to exist. | |
| 9873 | 188 |
| 10118 | 189 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell, |
| 190 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab. | |
| 9408 | 191 |
| 10323 | 192 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators, |
| 193 as well as the `isequal' function. | |
| 194 | |
| 10118 | 195 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat', |
| 196 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional | |
| 197 arrays. | |
| 10117 | 198 |
| 9547 | 199 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
| 10118 | 200 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a |
| 201 scalar, then the statement | |
| 9547 | 202 |
| 10118 | 203 M += S; |
| 9547 | 204 |
| 10118 | 205 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another |
| 206 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
| 9547 | 207 |
| 9558 | 208 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
| 9547 | 209 |
| 210 matrix += matrix | |
| 211 matrix -= matrix | |
| 9558 | 212 matrix .*= matrix |
| 213 matrix ./= matrix | |
| 214 | |
| 9547 | 215 matrix += scalar |
| 216 matrix -= scalar | |
| 217 matrix *= scalar | |
| 218 matrix /= scalar | |
| 9558 | 219 |
| 9552 | 220 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
| 221 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
| 9547 | 222 |
| 10118 | 223 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand |
| 224 side must be a simple variable reference. | |
| 9888 | 225 |
| 10118 | 226 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will |
| 227 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a | |
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| 9589 | 229 |
| 10118 | 230 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to |
| 231 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict | |
| 232 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More | |
| 233 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical | |
| 234 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real | |
| 235 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by wrapping the | |
| 236 operands in real(). | |
| 9547 | 237 |
| 10118 | 238 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has |
| 239 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero | |
| 240 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero | |
| 241 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for | |
| 242 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is | |
| 243 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the | |
| 244 imaginary part is zero. | |
| 9826 | 245 |
| 10118 | 246 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary |
| 247 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler | |
| 248 optimizations and are thus significantly faster. | |
| 9595 | 249 |
| 10118 | 250 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out |
| 251 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual. | |
| 9595 | 252 |
| 10453 | 253 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to |
| 10118 | 254 handle the expressions |
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| 10118 | 260 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. |
| 261 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be | |
| 262 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate | |
| 10453 | 263 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical |
| 10118 | 264 transpose of M. |
| 9664 | 265 |
| 10118 | 266 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix |
| 267 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex | |
| 268 matrix, | |
| 9664 | 269 |
| 10118 | 270 RM * CM |
| 9664 | 271 |
| 272 can now be evaluated either as | |
| 273 | |
| 274 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
| 275 | |
| 276 or as | |
| 277 | |
| 278 complex (RM) * CM, | |
| 279 | |
| 10453 | 280 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more |
| 281 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally | |
| 282 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the | |
| 283 second form was always used. | |
| 9664 | 284 |
| 11111 | 285 Matrix division is similarly affected. |
| 9664 | 286 |
| 10118 | 287 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from |
| 288 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky | |
| 289 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix | |
| 290 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need | |
| 291 to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
| 9717 | 292 |
| 10118 | 293 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation |
| 294 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more | |
| 295 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input | |
| 296 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option | |
| 297 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a | |
| 298 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots | |
| 299 of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
| 9717 | 300 |
| 10118 | 301 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain |
| 302 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the | |
| 303 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times', | |
| 304 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays), | |
| 305 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the | |
| 306 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both | |
| 307 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and | |
| 308 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a | |
| 309 common type. | |
| 9745 | 310 |
| 10118 | 311 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled |
| 312 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching | |
| 313 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code | |
| 314 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when | |
| 315 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi' | |
| 316 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance. | |
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| 11111 | 324 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be |
| 325 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'. | |
| 326 For more details, consult the manual. | |
| 10886 | 327 |
| 10453 | 328 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has |
| 329 been removed. | |
| 10276 | 330 |
| 10453 | 331 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly |
| 332 faster in certain important cases. | |
| 10054 | 333 |
| 10292 | 334 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more |
| 335 Matlab-compatible. | |
| 336 | |
| 10406 | 337 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan, |
| 338 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow, | |
| 11111 | 339 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed. |
| 10406 | 340 |
| 10453 | 341 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer |
| 342 types efficiently using integer arithmetic. | |
| 10437 | 343 |
| 10536 | 344 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten. |
| 345 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices, | |
| 346 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns. | |
| 347 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other | |
| 348 important cases. | |
| 349 | |
| 350 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and | |
| 351 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain | |
| 352 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function, | |
| 353 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no | |
| 11111 | 354 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix |
| 355 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should | |
| 356 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e. the | |
| 357 space allocated for nonzero elements). | |
| 10536 | 358 |
| 359 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse | |
| 360 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more | |
| 11111 | 361 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the |
| 10536 | 362 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions. |
| 363 | |
| 11111 | 364 ** It is now possible to optionally employ the xGESDD LAPACK drivers |
| 365 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd(), instead | |
| 366 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable | |
| 367 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when | |
| 368 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less | |
| 10639 | 369 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices. |
| 370 | |
| 371 ** Configuration pseudo-variables, such as page_screen_output or | |
| 372 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now | |
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| 377 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local"); | |
| 378 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s"); | |
| 379 ... | |
| 380 endfunction | |
| 381 | |
| 382 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value | |
| 383 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent | |
| 384 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions | |
| 385 it calls. | |
| 386 | |
| 11111 | 387 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing |
| 388 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example, | |
| 10774 | 389 |
| 390 pkg install -forge general | |
| 391 | |
| 11111 | 392 will automatically download the latest release of the general |
| 393 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of | |
| 394 dependencies is provided. Further, | |
| 10639 | 395 |
| 10774 | 396 pkg list -forge |
| 397 | |
| 398 can be used to list all available packages. | |
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| 463 mu2lin (x, 0). | |
| 464 | |
| 465 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way | |
| 466 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using | |
| 467 readline for command-line editing. For example | |
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| 471 tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list. | |
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| 589 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the | |
| 590 high level graphics handle code. | |
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| 593 | |
| 594 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
| 595 | |
| 596 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
| 597 | |
| 598 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
| 599 the pkg function). | |
| 600 | |
| 601 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
| 602 | |
| 603 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
| 604 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
| 605 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
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| 608 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
| 609 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
| 610 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
| 611 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
| 612 | |
| 613 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
| 614 | |
| 615 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping | |
| 616 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
| 617 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
| 618 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
| 619 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
| 620 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
| 621 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
| 622 | |
| 623 ** Improved traceback error messages. | |
| 624 | |
| 625 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to | |
| 626 understand. They now display information about the function call | |
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| 634 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
| 635 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
| 636 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
| 637 generic versions of these functions. | |
| 638 | |
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| 642 | |
| 643 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
| 7038 | 644 |
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| 646 | |
| 647 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
| 648 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
| 649 command-style function calls are | |
| 650 | |
| 651 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
| 652 followed by a space. | |
| 653 | |
| 654 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
| 655 | |
| 656 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
| 657 operator. | |
| 658 | |
| 659 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
| 660 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
| 661 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
| 662 | |
| 663 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like | |
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| 666 | |
| 667 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
| 668 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
| 669 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
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| 672 | |
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| 8747 | 675 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
| 676 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
| 677 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
| 678 each line. For example, | |
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| 8737 | 702 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". |
| 2452 | 703 |
| 8737 | 704 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
| 705 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
| 706 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
| 707 operations. | |
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| 8737 | 709 ** Single Precision data type. |
| 2452 | 710 |
| 8737 | 711 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
| 712 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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| 5995 | 714 |
| 8737 | 715 single (1) |
| 716 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
| 717 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
| 718 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
| 719 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
| 720 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
| 721 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
| 7279 | 722 |
| 8737 | 723 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
| 724 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
| 725 return single precision types. | |
| 726 | |
| 727 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal | |
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730 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured. |
| 7279 | 731 |
| 8737 | 732 ** Improved array indexing. |
| 733 | |
| 734 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been | |
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| 8737 | 736 |
| 8755 | 737 ** Improved memory management. |
| 738 | |
| 739 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
| 740 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or | |
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| 8755 | 742 both time and memory consumption. |
| 9128 | 743 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
| 744 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
| 745 the end of the vector. | |
| 8755 | 746 |
| 8738 | 747 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
| 748 | |
| 8755 | 749 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
| 750 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
| 8738 | 751 |
| 9006 | 752 ** Sorting and searching. |
| 753 | |
| 754 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
| 10453 | 755 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted |
| 756 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more | |
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| 10453 | 758 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search, |
| 759 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with | |
| 760 cell arrays of strings. | |
| 9006 | 761 |
| 762 ** Range arithmetics | |
| 763 | |
| 10453 | 764 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the |
| 765 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar, | |
| 766 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero | |
| 767 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in | |
| 768 function `ones'. | |
| 9006 | 769 |
| 770 ** Various performance improvements. | |
| 771 | |
| 10453 | 772 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions |
| 773 was improved, including: | |
| 9006 | 774 |
| 775 * logical operations | |
| 776 * comparison operators | |
| 777 * element-wise power | |
| 778 * accumarray | |
| 779 * cellfun | |
| 780 * isnan | |
| 781 * isinf | |
| 782 * isfinite | |
| 783 * nchoosek | |
| 784 * repmat | |
| 785 * strcmp | |
| 786 | |
| 8737 | 787 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
| 788 | |
| 789 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
| 790 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
| 791 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
| 792 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
| 793 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
| 794 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
| 795 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
| 796 necessary. | |
| 797 | |
| 8885 | 798 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
| 799 | |
| 800 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
| 801 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
| 802 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
| 803 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
| 804 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
| 805 | |
| 806 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
| 807 | |
| 808 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
| 809 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
| 810 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
| 811 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
| 812 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
| 813 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision | |
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| 8885 | 815 |
| 8737 | 816 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
| 817 | |
| 818 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
| 819 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
| 820 | |
| 821 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
| 822 | |
| 823 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
| 824 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
| 825 GPL-compatible license). | |
| 826 | |
| 827 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. | |
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| 8737 | 829 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift |
| 830 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
| 831 | |
| 832 ** New quadrature functions. | |
| 833 | |
| 834 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
| 835 | |
| 8885 | 836 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
| 837 | |
| 838 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
| 839 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
| 840 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
| 841 type, colors, etc.) | |
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| 8737 | 847 ** Other miscellaneous new functions. |
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850 bicgstab idivide realpow |
| 9006 | 851 cellslices info realsqrt |
| 852 cgs interp1q rectint | |
| 853 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
| 854 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
| 855 convn isstrprop roundb | |
| 856 cummin log1p rundemos | |
| 857 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
| 858 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
| 859 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
| 860 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
| 861 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
| 862 fstat perl subspace | |
| 863 full prctile symvar | |
| 864 fzero quantile treelayout | |
| 865 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
| 866 histc | |
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| 8885 | 868 ** Changes to strcat. |
| 869 | |
| 870 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
| 871 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
| 872 character strings. For example | |
| 873 | |
| 874 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
| 875 ==> 'foobar' | |
| 876 | |
| 877 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
| 878 Octave's strcat. | |
| 879 | |
| 880 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
| 881 | |
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| 8885 | 883 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been |
| 884 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
| 885 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
| 886 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
| 887 installed. | |
| 888 | |
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891 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be |
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895 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf |
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896 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd |
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897 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf |
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898 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv |
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899 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf |
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900 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd |
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901 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg |
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902 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr |
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903 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains |
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904 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements |
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905 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf |
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906 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv |
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907 clearplot is_square t_pdf |
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908 clg is_stream t_rnd |
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909 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf |
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910 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv |
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911 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf |
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912 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd |
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913 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf |
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914 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv |
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915 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf |
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916 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd |
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917 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf |
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918 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv |
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919 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf |
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921 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd |
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930 dmult spcumprod spmin |
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937 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand |
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938 spchol split |
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