csvread 3.0.1 exponentially slower than v 3.0.0

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote:

| gOS wrote:
| > [...]
| Now the slow up appears impressive, and I'd like to see this situation
| improved. However looking at the new dlmread.cc file used by csvread.m,
| I can't see any obvious reason for the slow-up. Unfortuantely I don't
| really have the time to look at this in the near future, so if the old
| dlmread.cc was fine with your code I'd suggest getting it from
| 
| http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/io/src/dlmread.cc?revision=4585
| 
| and using it instead. Alternatively, you might look at the new
| dlmread.cc function and see how you might fix the slow-up issues.

I might also be willing to look at this problem if you can create a
simple example that only requires a data file and calling dlmread to
read it.

jwe