Re: newbie: avoiding loops & flushing output.

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:20:03PM +0300, Yoel Callev wrote:
> 1) When I have a 'weight' scalar product of two vectors, i.e. 
> sum_i(x(i)*y(i)*w(i)), is it possible to avoid a loop by phrasing it in 
> a vector form, so that it'll run faster?

Use 

  sum(x.*y.*w)

or if you want a subset of vectors

  sum(x(i).*y(i).*w(i))

> 2) When I run long scripts, I get all the output at the end, and thus 
> have no progress indicator, is there a way to get  some intermidiate 
> output before the script is over without pausing the execution of the 
> script?

See help for page_screen_output and page_output_immediately.

Mirek



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