Saving cell arrays efficiently

Hi

Does anyone know or have an opinion on the most efficient way of saving and retrieving a cell array - my array is ~1x500 000 cells and due to the size I want something that isn't too time consuming. One of the help pages suggests saving to ACSII but this doesn't seems efficient

Many thanks

Answer 1

[Jan]

What about save and load? Try the -v6 and -v7 options and compare the speed with -v7.3 . FEX: savezip might be an option also.