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Accelerating MATLAB
®
Performance
Accelerating MATLAB
®
Performance
1001 tips to speed up MATLAB programs
Yair Altman
Yair Altman
A very interesting new book on MATLAB
®
performance … covering basic tools and an
appropriate range of specific programming techniques. The book seems to take a whole-
system approach … helping readers understand the big picture of how to get better
performance.
—Michelle Hirsch, Ph.D., Head of MATLAB
®
Product Management
The MATLAB programming environment is often perceived as a platform suitable for
prototyping and modeling but not for “serious” applications. One of the main complaints
is that MATLAB is just too slow. Accelerating MATLAB Performance aims to correct
this perception by describing multiple ways to greatly improve MATLAB program speed.
The book:
• Demonstrates how to prole MATLAB code for performance and resource usage,
enabling users to focus on the program’s actual hotspots
• Considers tradeoffs in performance tuning, horizontal vs. vertical scalability, latency
vs. throughput, and perceived vs. actual performance
• Explains generic speedup techniques used throughout the software industry and
their adaptation for MATLAB, plus methods specic to MATLAB
• Analyzes the effects of various data types and processing functions
• Covers vectorization, parallelization (implicit and explicit), distributed computing,
optimization, memory management, chunking, and caching
• Explains MATLAB’s memory model and shows how to prole memory usage and
optimize code to reduce memory allocations and data fetches
• Describes the use of GPU, MEX, FPGA, and other forms of compiled code
• Details acceleration techniques for GUI, graphics, I/O, Simulink
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, object-oriented
MATLAB, MATLAB startup, and deployed applications
• Discusses a wide variety of MathWorks and third-party functions, utilities, libraries,
and toolboxes that can help to improve performance
Ideal for novices and professionals alike, the book leaves no stone unturned. It covers
all aspects of MATLAB, taking a comprehensive approach to boosting MATLAB perfor-
mance. It is packed with thousands of helpful tips, code examples, and online references.
Supported by an active website, the book will help readers rapidly attain signicant re-
ductions in development costs and program run times.
Yair Altman, author of the popular UndocumentedMatlab.com website, is well respected
by the MATLAB community as a leading expert on advanced MATLAB programming. In
over 20 years of professional software development, Yair has developed systems using
two dozen programming languages, a dozen platforms, and countless MATLAB releases.
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