Why is large matrix subtraction making my code so slow?

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Matt Flood
Matt Flood 2018-9-18
评论： Matt Flood 2018-9-27
Hello,
I have created a function which handles matrices roughly [10000 x 20000] in size. When I ran my function using the time & run profiler in MatLab, it is telling me that two lines of my code are taking 29s and 22s respectively:
These lines of code are basic matrix operations that shouldn't be computationally expensive to perform. They are equivalent to:
N = rand(10000,20000);
X = [zeros(10000,1) cumsum(N,2)];
M = X(:,5:end) - X(:,1:end-5);
When I run these lines of code in the command window, they only take a second or two at most.
Can anyone please tell me why MatLab is taking so long to calculate these lines inside a function? Thanks a mil!
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John D'Errico
John D'Errico 2018-9-18
You may be executing those lines MANY times. So while ONE call there will be relatively fast, the total time for those lines is 20-30 seconds. The profile tool tells you the total time spent on those lines, not for ONE call.
If you are truly executing those lines ONLY once, then the odds are good that they are sufficiently large enough arrays that they are forcing MATLAB to farm memory out to disk, thus going into virtual memory.
Matt Flood
Matt Flood 2018-9-27
Thanks guys, I think it was a virtual memory issue. When I cleared each variable straight after they were used, it quickened the performance time.
It still takes 20s-30s to perform the matrix subtraction, but overall the function is faster.

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