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    <p>I've often found myself doing something like this:</p> <pre><code>unprocessedData = fetchData(); % returns a vector of structs or objects processedData = []; % will be full of structs or objects for dataIdx = 1 : length(unprocessedData) processedDatum = process(unprocessedData(dataIdx)); processedData = [processedData; processedDatum]; end </code></pre> <p>Which, whilst functional, isn't optimal - the <code>processedData</code> vector is growing inside the loop. Even <code>mlint</code> warns me that I should consider preallocating for speed.</p> <p>Were data a vector of <code>int8</code>, I could do this:</p> <pre><code>% preallocate processed data array to prevent growth in loop processedData = zeros(length(unprocessedData), 1, 'int8'); </code></pre> <p>and modify the loop to fill vector slots rather than concatenate.</p> <p><strong>is there a way to preallocate a vector so that it can subsequently hold structs or objects?</strong></p> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong> inspired by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/591495/matlab-preallocate-a-non-numeric-vector/591569#591569">Azim's answer</a>, I've simply reversed the loop order. Processing the last element first forces preallocation of the entire vector in the first hit, as the debugger confirms:</p> <pre><code>unprocessedData = fetchData(); % note that processedData isn't declared outside the loop - this breaks % it if it'll later hold non-numeric data. Instead we exploit matlab's % odd scope rules which mean that processedData will outlive the loop % inside which it is first referenced: for dataIdx = length(unprocessedData) : -1 : 1 processedData(dataIdx) = process(unprocessedData(dataIdx)); end </code></pre> <p><strong>This requires that any objects returned by <code>process()</code> have a valid zero-args constructor</strong> since MATLAB initialises <code>processedData</code> on the first write to it with real objects.</p> <p><code>mlint</code> still complains about possible array growth, but I think that's because it can't recognise the reversed loop iteration...</p>
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