How can I combine binary data in memory, and use fwrite for only one time to write all the data?
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Jianfei
le 7 Août 2021
Commenté : per isakson
le 8 Août 2021
I need to write some large data in multiple loops. Each time, the data being written by fwrite is very small, and the frequent usage of fwrite seems to slow down my code. Here's an example:
% For loop starts:
fwrite(fid,dataA,'uint32');
fwrite(fid,dataB,'uint16');
fwrite(fid,dataC,'char');
...
% For loop ends
Is it possible if I combine dataA, dataB, and dataC together, so I can use fwrite for only one time, which will very likely be quicker.
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per isakson
le 7 Août 2021
Modifié(e) : per isakson
le 7 Août 2021
The documentation on fwrite() says:
precision — Class and size of values to write
'uint8' (default) | character vector | string scalar
which answers your question: No
per isakson
le 8 Août 2021
The documentation on fopen() says:
permission — File access type
[...]
'A' Open file for appending without automatic flushing of the current output buffer.
'W' Open file for writing without automatic flushing of the current output buffer.
And see Improving fwrite performance
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Walter Roberson
le 7 Août 2021
You have a problem: you are using a binary file, but you are not using a constant number of bytes each time, and you are not putting in any kind of count or marker to know how large the variable-length data is.
You are not using a constant number of bytes each time because you are requesting 'char', and "The MATLAB®char type is not a fixed size, and the number of bytes depends on the encoding scheme associated with the file. Set encoding with fopen."
For example if your dataC includes '∑' then that is char(8721) which requires at least two bytes to write out.
We do not know what encoding you are using, so we have to ask fopen() what is being used, and then we have to ask unicode2native to translate the characters into a byte stream according to the encoding.
[~, ~, ~, encoding] = fopen(fid);
byte_A = typecast(dataA, 'uint8');
byte_B = typecast(dataB, 'uint8');
byte_C = unicode2native(dataC, encoding);
bytes = [byte_a, byte_B, byte_C];
fwrite(fid, bytes, 'uint8');
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Walter Roberson
le 7 Août 2021
That's what the typecast() does.
dataA = randi([0 65535], 'uint16')
typecast(dataA, 'uint8')
double(ans(2))*256+double(ans(1)) %cross-check
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