Re: Speeding up "lookfor"?

[Søren Hauberg]

Well, the thread at the maintainers list is at
http://www.nabble.com/help-as-m-files-td20223070.html . The last post
contains the latest changeset. This is against the development sources
(3.1.51+), but I think it'll work with 3.0.x. The easiest way to test
things is to check out the latest sources from Mercurial (instructions
are at octave.org), apply the changeset, and then compile the sources.
So, it is some work to do such testing.

Søren

man, 10 11 2008 kl. 07:39 +1100, skrev Alasdair McAndrew:
> I would be very happy to test it, if you be able to send it to me, as
> well as instructions on how to get it working on my octave (v. 3.0.3).
> 
> Thanks,
> Alasdair
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         With the current implementation, no. However, a changeset has
>         been
>         posted to the maintainers list, that reimplements the help
>         system
>         (including 'lookfor') as m-files. This implementation supports
>         caches
>         for 'lookfor' which provides a substantial speedup (~1 sec to
>         search all
>         functions on my old laptop). If you want to help out here,
>          then it
>         would be nice if you would test it, as I think it has only
>         been tested
>         on my machine.
>         
>         Søren
>         
>         man, 10 11 2008 kl. 07:19 +1100, skrev Alasdair McAndrew:
>         
>         > If this question's been asked before, I'm sorry, but I can't
>         find the
>         > answer to it anywhere.  How can I speed up the behaviour of
>         "lookfor"
>         > - is there some way, for example, of building a cache or
>         database that
>         > can be very quickly searched?
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > Alasdair
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