Need help to classify a variable for parallel computing
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I have something like:
parfor
....
[blobCentroid(i-chunk,1:2),blobOrientation(i-chunk,1)]=blob_analysis(vidFrame_bn);
....
end
but get this msg:
Error: File: core_ZBtracker.m Line: 154 Column: 2
The variable blobCentroid in a parfor cannot be classified.
See Parallel for Loops in MATLAB, "Overview".
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Walter Roberson
on 14 Nov 2012
Indexing of (non-temporary) arrays within parfor is restricted to using the parfor index in combination with constant offsets. If one of "i" or "chunk" is being computed inside the parfor, then the i-chunk indexing will be disallowed.
It is more or less the case that if parfor cannot prove, by quick static analysis, that the different iterations of the parfor loop will definitely write to parts of the array that cannot overlap what is written in any other iteration, then the indexing will be refused.
It is sometimes the case that there are theoretical proofs, or your knowledge of the data values, that allow you to know that the indexing in the different loops cannot overlap, but if parfor cannot prove it easy inspection, then parfor will balk.
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