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I got a large data matrix (3Gb) of signal data which I saved to a .mat file. Since the data size is large I figured out it will be wiser to access the file and read each time a block of data, process it and move to the next block instead of loading the complete file. I'm wondering should I use the matfile method, fopen and fread or should I use a datastore and read command. What is faster from the processing point of view and easier to work with? Or any other considerations? Thanks
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per isakson
on 14 Nov 2016
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- "large data matrix (3Gb) of signal data which I saved to a .mat file"
- "Total RAM size - 3G[B]"
- "[one] plain numerical array 10 million lines by 48 columns"
I assume the mat-file is version 7.3, because that's needed to store an array of that size.
I would say this a a perfect case for matfile, Access and change variables directly in MAT-files, without loading into memory.
It's the easiest to work with and I don't think there is any other way that is significantly faster.
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