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The Need for Array Pre-Allocation

The MATLAB code analyzer produces two warnings about our x and t arrays changing size on every iteration as demonstrated in the video below.

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Pre-Allocation Procedure

We pre-allocate the x and t arrays using the zeros function as shown below.

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Change in Run-Time due to Pre-Allocation

We next use the "profiler" in MATLAB to check how much the run-time decreases due to pre-allocation.

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