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Preface
The MATLAB
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programming environment is often perceived as a platform suitable for
prototyping and modeling but not for actual real-life applications. One of the reasons that
I constantly hear when consulting with clients is that “MATLAB is slow”.
This book aims to help reduce this perception and shows that MATLAB programs can in
fact be made to run extremely fast, in a wide variety of different ways.
MathWorks, who develop MATLAB, invests a signicant amount of R&D effort in con-
stantly improving MATLAB’s performance and advocating best practices for improved
performance.
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Postings for performance-related R&D jobs are periodically posted ...