[PATCH 0 of 4] Implement basic sparse op diag and diag op sparse support.

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On 12-Mar-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | I basically agree with these changes, because their logic is
> | undeniable (that was a good film :-).  I would, however, like to see
> | more people say "yes" before including them for 3.2.x.
>
> These changes only involve sparse x diag or sparse x perm matrix
> operations, right?

Yes. These operations will be Matlab-incompatible, but they are also
unlikely to be used in realistic Matlab code, because they're
inefficient (in Matlab).

> If so, then I suppose it would be OK to include
> them in 3.2.

OK. I'll do it tomorrow.

> But we do have to stop somewhere and actually make a
> release (assuming, of course, that people want actual releases and not
> just a long series of snapshots like we had from 1997--2007...
>

"People" need to decide that. Those compiling from sources, such as
me, have probably lesser need for releases. But distros need releases.
Given that in a distro, such as Ubuntu, updating a package is
typically trivial, their users would probably appreciate more frequent
releases, even if those don't bring lots of improvements.

> jwe
>



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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz