Vectorized way to assign columns/rows of matrix to struct array's field

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Currently I'm using a for loop to assign parts of a matrix to struct's field, like this:
clear
len = 90000;
width = 51;
structArray(1:len) = struct("field",zeros(width,1));
matrixToAssign = rand(width,len);
for i=1:len
structArray(i).field = matrixToAssign(:,i);
end
Because I could vectorize the calculations(not seen here), the assignment of the solutions in the for loop takes an equal amount of time relative to the calculation itself. Is there a way to do the assignment also in a fast vectorized way ?
The calculations I'm doing in this part of the script are depending on len. Typically for examples len>>90000 the accumulated calculations need around 3s and the accumulated assignments need around 2s (calculation and assignment are done multiple times). I have seen something like below, which tends in the right direction but isn't quite what I want to do. I have also seen transformations into cell arrays but I believe those are not faster than the loop method, but maybe I'm wrong.
[structArray.field] = deal(matrixToAssign);

Answers (1)

Bruno Luong
Bruno Luong on 6 Aug 2022
split = num2cell(matrixToAssign,1);
[structArray.field] = deal(split{;});
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Bruno Luong
Bruno Luong on 6 Aug 2022
Edited: Bruno Luong on 6 Aug 2022
IMO If you care about speed, you shouldn't split your array into struct at the first place. It cost you 0 second.
Jonas Schütz
Jonas Schütz on 6 Aug 2022
I guess you are right. I thought there is a faster way to do it. Perhaps I have to take that into consideration.

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