Re: slow char({str})

[Daniel J Sebald]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> I noticed a substantial amount of time is needed to convert a cell  
> string into a string
>
> octave:50> tic; char ({repmat("a", [1, 100000])}); toc
> Elapsed time is 11.9 seconds.
>
> but ...
>
> octave:51> tic; char ({repmat("a", [1, 100000])}{1}); toc
> Elapsed time is 0.001117 seconds.
>
> Can someone with skilled in c++ take a look?

The hard part is locating a built-in function named "char".

Dan