Re: fast hist() / histogram() implementation in C++

[Andy Adler]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>
> I acknowledge the effort in improving hist.m. Is is as fast as M-language
> allows. Unfortunately, using it for large images (e.g. 2D detector data)
> like 512^2 and above goes beyond the user patiency (at least, for me). That
> was my move to reimplement my own favourite histogram.m into histogram.oct.
> ...
> Thus, in average, 50x speedup is achieved for linearly spaced bins,
> and 27x for logarithmically (or whichever non-linearly) spaced bins.

These improvements do appear to be impressive.

I would recommend that you contribute them to octave-forge,
probably in the main/general directory.

Additionally, you can ask jwe if he is prepared to add them to
octave. I suspect that, at minimum, he will ask for a comprehensive
set of tests. There were a few bug reports about the last changes
to hist.m

Andy





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