JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 7fd130f0d283f469cdef87c5746860edd2c530c2
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By ViralBShah:

It is something people are accustomed to having for doing simple stuff. I use these all the time myself. I don't see the harm in having these implemented. Of course, anybody who wants performance would never use it. One can always use Ranges, comprehensions, etc. where meshgrid/ndgrid is overkill.

-viral

On Dec 31, 2011, at 1:41 AM, JeffBezanson wrote:

> It's a memory hog, making big unnecessary arrays of repeated numbers. It's better to use Ranges and comprehensions and such. We should look at use cases of meshgrid and see if we can replace them with something better.
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