Yair Altman
Consultant
Website: http://UndocumentedMatlab.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yairaltman
Author of "Accelerating MATLAB Performance" book:
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/books/matlab-performance
Author of "Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming" book:
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/books/matlab-java
MSc Computer Science, BSc Physics (both with top honors)
Professional programmer and manager since 1991
Contact me: altmany at gmail.com
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export_fig
Publication-quality export of Matlab figures and axes to various vector & bitmap formats
15 hours ago | 1297 downloads |
Exporting images (png) through export_fig - painfully slow
Try to either reduce the resolution (the -r450 part), or to save as a vector-graphics image (PDF/EPS) rather than a PNG bitmap.
9 days ago | 0
How to save very large image to original resolution
Try to use export_fig's sister image-export utility, ScreenCapture: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24323-s...
1 month ago | 0
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findjobj - find java handles of Matlab graphic objects
Find java objects contained within a specified java container or Matlab GUI handle
1 month ago | 51 downloads |
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ScreenCapture - screenshot of component, figure or screen
ScreenCapture gets a screen-capture image of any Matlab GUI handle, or specified screen area rectangle
2 months ago | 56 downloads |
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IQML - Matlab connector to IQFeed
Matlab connector to IQFeed optimized for reliability, ease-of-use, functionality and performance (including parallelization)
3 months ago | 4 downloads |
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cprintf - display formatted colored text in Command Window
Displays sprintf-formatted strings in the Command Window using the specified color/underline style
6 months ago | 99 downloads |
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checkClass - inspect a Java/Matlab/COM class object/name
inspect a Java/MCOS/COM/.NET object or classname and display its methods, properties, events, interfaces, etc.
7 months ago | 3 downloads |
Can I somehow improve performance of str2double?
I use the following function to convert a cell-array of strings to a cell-array of numeric values (where applicable) - it is ~2-...
8 months ago | 2
Speed issues with Matlab code compiled using SDK compiler for Python
Perhaps your deployed environment is different from your Matlab &D one. For example, perhaps you can access a GPU on the R&D env...
8 months ago | 0
How To Clear Java Heap Space Memory????
Clearing Matlab's Java heap space has been long awaited, but I'm afraid that the suggested submission (Davide Tabarelli's JavaHe...
9 months ago | 2
Import data tool speed
The import tool GUI only shows you a preview of the data, based on the top N lines in the file, it does not read and process the...
10 months ago | 0
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MATLAB Profiler - Granularity of Information
Use the [undocumented] -detail builtin profiler option, as in: profile on -detail builtin This works on old Matlab releases as ...
1 year ago | 1
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How can I make the plot transparent in a gscattter?
Nice answer Adam, but not exactly accurate if you are willing to use some undocumented features... The underlying objects in a...
1 year ago | 3
MATLAB export_fig crops title
This is fixed in the latest version of export_fig (3.09). In the future, report such issues in export_fig's issues page: https:/...
1 year ago | 0
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How to speed up a code from the Code Profiler Results ?
Try to set the "Vectorized" property using the odeset function, before running ode45. Also, specifying the Jacobian in advance (...
1 year ago | 0
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[Soft question] Tips and tools to analyze unfamiliar OO code
For inspecting a single object or class, try the GUI-based uiinspect utility (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexch...
1 year ago | 0
Heatmap Axis Labels Printing Vertically?
The heatmap's X labels orientation is dynamically determined based on the number of labels and the axes width. In other words, i...
1 year ago | 1
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popupPanel Displays a popup panel with specified content
popupPanel Displays a popup panel with specified file contents, help topic, HTML or webpage
1 year ago | 1 download |
graphics performance 2019a vs 2016b
R2019a uses the integrated axes toolbar, which constantly monitors mouse movements in order to generate data tips on-the-fly. If...
1 year ago | 0
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Poor performance of mex file
You m-function uses parallelization (parfor), while your mex file does not. This in itself could cause your m-code to run much f...
1 year ago | 0
Increase CPU Speed - MAC
You can separate the problem into separate tasks and launch separate Matlab processes to process them in parallel. This is essen...
1 year ago | 0
How can I clear stuck help popups?
Updates June 12, 2020: There is a recognized bug report on a very similar issue: https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1...
1 year ago | 5
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dynamic java path vs static java path
Some Java functionality, especially those that are concerned with Java events that need to propagate to Matlab callbacks, does n...
1 year ago | 0
Matlab in AVX2 mode (for AMD CPU's)
This is apparently fixed on R2020a as reported by @NedFlanders (original credit is apparently due to @MichelKatz): https://www...
1 year ago | 0
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How to change Heatmap's Grid (Edge) appereance and behavior?
There are several alternatives: Update the grid style to a non-solid line, for example: hHeatmap = struct(h_map).Heatmap; hHe...
1 year ago | 3
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Unable to use Java class in a package - Undefined function or variable 'CartesianCoordinate'.
This problem could be due to numerous possible causes, and unfortunately Matlab is not very helpful in explaining the root cause...
1 year ago | 0
How to load multiple excel files with multiple excel sheets and store it in matlab faster?
Try to use the 'basic' mode of xlsread, which reads the XLS file directly instead of using the much slower Excel instance: for ...
1 year ago | 0
Interactive broker timeseries vs history?
Both of these functions in the Trading Toolbox call IB's reqHistoricalDataEx function internally, but for some reason Mathworks ...
1 year ago | 0
