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changeset 13262:37e6f54cca15
update NEWS
* NEWS: Mention new profiler functions with the entry about the new
profiler. Mention new preference functions.
| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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| date | Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:21:26 -0400 |
| parents | 9134ca9d4ec8 |
| children | a156263b5509 |
| files | NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/NEWS Fri Sep 30 22:15:47 2011 -0400 +++ b/NEWS Fri Sep 30 22:21:26 2011 -0400 @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ ** Octave now features a profiler, thanks to the work of Daniel Kraft under the Google Summer of Code mentorship program. The manual has - been updated to reflect this addition. + been updated to reflect this addition. The new user-visible + functions are profexplore, profile, and profshow. ** Overhaul of statistical distribution functions @@ -38,20 +39,22 @@ ** Certain string functions have been modified for greater Matlab compatibility and for 15X greater performance when operating on cell array of strings. - deblank : Now requires character or cellstr input. - strtrim : Now requires character or cellstr input. + deblank: Now requires character or cellstr input. + strtrim: Now requires character or cellstr input. No longer trims nulls ("\0") from string for ML compatibility. strmatch: Follows documentation precisely and ignores trailing spaces in pattern and in string. Note that Matlab documents this behavior but the implementation does *not* always follow it. - - ** New functions added. + + ** Matlab-compatible preference functions: + + addpref getpref ispref rmpref setpref - iscolumn - issrow - zscore - profile - profshow + ** Other miscellaneous new functions: + + iscolumn + issrow + zscore ** Deprecated functions.