How can I prealloate a comlex-valued matrix?
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Hanna Liu
el 12 de Sept. de 2019
Editada: Matthew Bayer
el 22 de Sept. de 2021
The following code seems really slow, which I do allocating a matrix and then write some complex numbers in it:
tic,for kk = 1:1000
aa = (zeros(10000,500)); aa(:,300) = 1i * 3;
end;toc
The code is really slow:
Elapsed time is 42.463659 seconds.
Is there any way to accerlate this?
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Bruno Luong
el 12 de Sept. de 2019
Editada: Bruno Luong
el 12 de Sept. de 2019
"When I run the matlab profiler, I find out that the code I first write values in my matrix is super slow. "
MATLAB has complicated memory management than you would think. It can allocate and copy a big array when you assign something even tiny (copy-on-write). It can do nothing when you think you allocate a big array, but then the first time you read something it will allocated (allocate-on-use).
It is crucial for you to describe how you allocate, if your matrix is "shared" by something else, etc... or the data flow of your algorithm so we can advide.
You cannot make a simplify your code and ask for the advise based on the simplification, especially "how to allocate faster than zeros(...)", no there is NO simple answer to such question, because the time depends what your program did before.
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Steven Lord
el 12 de Sept. de 2019
I would probably use the 'like' syntax for the zeros function.
A = zeros(10000, 500, 'like', 1i);
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Matthew Bayer
el 22 de Sept. de 2021
Editada: Matthew Bayer
el 22 de Sept. de 2021
This is better than the other answer, A = complex(zeros(10000,500)). I recently tried both and found the 'like' syntax was considerably faster. The complex() statement is presumably first creating the real array and then converting to a complex one, while the 'like' syntax just creates the complex array right away.
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