From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Nov 10 03:21:08 1997
Subject: sparse matrices and integer data types (was: Memory limits)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: John Logsdon <j dot logsdon at lancaster dot ac dot uk>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 03:19:19 -0600

On 23-Oct-1997, John Logsdon <j dot logsdon at lancaster dot ac dot uk> wrote:

| BTW are there any plans to implement either sparse matrices or
| byte/word/integer (1,2,4 byte) storage for data which are indices or take
| restricted values in octave? 8 bytes to store small numbers is rather
| wasteful - and yes I have thought about using sets.  

Yes, the current PROJECTS file includes lots of things like this that
would be nice to have, but for which there hasn't been sufficient
time, funding, or contributed code.

jwe