Finding all possible ways of adding array elements?

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A longer code I am writing is extremely time expensive, hopefully this approach will save a lot of time. The idea is to begin with, say, [1 1 1 1 1] And from left to right, find all the ways you can add the elements, ensuring that sum(V)=5 the whole while. The result is something like [0 1 1 1 2]; [0 1 1 2 1]; [0 1 2 1 1]; [0 2 1 1 1]; [0 0 1 1 3]; [0 0 1 2 1]; .... The idea is to create all possible combinations that have sum(row)=5, whilst cutting out repetitions as much as possible. I can filter out the remaining repetitions that will undoubtedly still come as an output using unique(V,'rows').
Anyone have any ideas? Kinda stuck right now.

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the cyclist
the cyclist on 12 Jan 2016
Download this FEX submission and type
partitions(5,[1 1 1 1 1])
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Daniel Derrick
Daniel Derrick on 12 Jan 2016
It's a bit slow- it creates many, many repetitions that are still slow to delete.

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