If we could somehow make `I` more visible, wouldn't you think that B = I*A
is better than B = eye(10000)*A ? Small side note: the best we can hope for is probably performance similarly to B = copy(A) because it wouldn't be okay to alias A and B when B has been constructed from *. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Júlio Hoffimann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > As a user I would like to write > > B = eye(10000) * A > > and have the performance of > > B = A > > 90% of the users won't be aware of this 1-character variable "I" defined > in Base nor use it. Also, I can guarantee that "I" is much easier to > overwrite than a well known function name. > > -Júlio >
