Accelerating MATLAB Performance

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Performance

Here is a sample implementation of this mechanism. First initialize the timeout ag:

% Initialize the global timeout flag

global timeoutFlag

timeoutFlag = false;

Next, set up a single-shot timer to trigger the timeout event:

% Create and start the separate single-shot timeout timer thread

hTimer = timer('TimerFcn',@timeoutEventFunc, 'StartDelay',timeout);

start(hTimer);

where timeoutEventFunc is dened to raise timeoutFlag, as follows:

% Function to raise the timeout flag

function timeoutEventFunc(hTimer,eventData)

global timeoutFlag

timeoutFlag = true;

end

Finally, in our main processing loop, we ...