Re: [OctDev] combs vs. combnk

2012-02-29 Thread Juan Pablo Carbajal
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Arno Onken wrote: > Hi Juan, > >> Is there any reason to have statistics-1.1.0/combnk.m which seems a >> slower implementation of  combinatorics-1.0.9/combs.m? > > Thanks for doing this comparison. It looks like combnk does things in a > MATLAB compatible way, whe

Re: [OctDev] combs vs. combnk

2012-02-29 Thread Arno Onken
Hi Juan, > Is there any reason to have statistics-1.1.0/combnk.m which seems a > slower implementation of combinatorics-1.0.9/combs.m? Thanks for doing this comparison. It looks like combnk does things in a MATLAB compatible way, whereas combs does not. combnk handles strings differently and app

[OctDev] combs vs. combnk

2012-02-28 Thread Juan Pablo Carbajal
Hi, Is there any reason to have statistics-1.1.0/combnk.m which seems a slower implementation of combinatorics-1.0.9/combs.m? Maybe is a bad idea to have statistics depending on combinatorics? Quick benchmark: octave> t0=cputime(); combs(1:10,5); cputime()-t0, t0=cputime(); combnk(1:10,5); cput