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+## Copyright (C) 2010 Soren Hauberg
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this file. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} times (@var{KP})
+## XXX: Write documentation
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = times (M1, M2)
+ ## Check input
+ if (nargin == 0)
+ print_usage ();
+ elseif (nargin == 1)
+ ## This seems to be what happens for full and sparse matrices, so we copy this behaviour
+ retval = M1;
+ return;
+ endif
+
+ if (!ismatrix (M1) || !ismatrix (M2))
+ error ("times: input arguments must be matrices");
+ endif
+
+ if (!size_equal (M1, M2))
+ error ("times: nonconformant arguments (op1 is %dx%d, op2 is %dx%d)",
+ rows (M1), columns (M1), rows (M2), columns (M2));
+ endif
+
+ ## Take action depending on input types
+ M1_is_KP = isa (M1, "kronprod");
+ M2_is_KP = isa (M2, "kronprod");
+
+ ## Product of Kronecker Products
+ ## Check if the size match such that the result is a Kronecker Product
+ if (M1_is_KP && M2_is_KP && size_equal (M1.A, M2.A) && size_equal (M1.B, M2.B))
+ retval = kronprod (M1.A .* M2.A, M1.B .* M2.B);
+ elseif (isscalar (M1) || isscalar (M2)) # Product of Kronecker Product and scalar
+ retval = M1 * M2; ## Forward to mtimes.
+ else # All other cases.
+ ## Form the full matrix or sparse matrix of both matrices
+ ## XXX: Can we do something smarter here?
+ if (issparse (M1))
+ M1 = sparse (M1);
+ else
+ M1 = full (M1);
+ endif
+
+ if (issparse (M2))
+ M2 = sparse (M2);
+ else
+ M2 = full (M2);
+ endif
+
+ retval = M1 .* M2;
+ endif
+endfunction