Preallocate Memory for Cell Array - MATLAB & Simulink (original) (raw)
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Cell arrays do not require completely contiguous memory. However, each cell requires contiguous memory, as does the cell array header that MATLAB® creates to describe the array. For very large arrays, incrementally increasing the number of cells or the number of elements in a cell results in Out of Memory errors.
Initialize a cell array by calling the cell function, or by assigning to the last element. For example, if C does not already exist, these statements are equivalent:
C = cell(25,50); C{25,50} = [];
MATLAB creates the header for a 25-by-50 cell array. However, MATLAB does not allocate any memory for the contents of each cell.