Category Archives: Memory

Preallocation performance

Preallocation is a standard Matlab speedup technique. Still, it has several undocumented aspects.

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Matlab’s internal memory representation

Matlab’s internal memory structure is explored and discussed.

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Profiling Matlab memory usage

mtic and mtoc were a couple of undocumented features that enabled users of past Matlab releases to easily profile memory usage.

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Matlab mex in-place editing

Editing Matlab arrays in-place can be an important technique for optimizing calculations. This article shows how to do it using Mex.

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Matlab-Java memory leaks, performance

Internal fields of Java objects may leak memory – this article explains how to avoid this without sacrificing performance.

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Performance: scatter vs. line

In many circumstances, the line function can generate visually-identical plots as the scatter function, much faster

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