I noticed it was taking 6-7 seconds to read in a wfile (scalar surface overlay) into matlab using fast_read_wfile.m. In case anybody else finds this annoying, here's a faster alternative that produces identical output:
in fast_read_wfile.m, replace everything after the first fread line with: vnum = fast_fread3(fid) ; % Number of non-zero values A = uint32(fread(fid,vnum*7,'uchar')); fclose(fid); v = bitshift(A(1:7:end), 16) + bitshift(A(2:7:end),8) + A(3:7:end); w0 = bitshift(A(4:7:end),24) + bitshift(A(5:7:end),16) + bitshift(A(6:7:end),8) + A(7:7:end); w = zeros(max(v),1); w(v+1) = typecast(w0,'single'); -Keith
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