"Properly vectorize your function"-warning. fcontour & mvnpdf

 F = @(x,y) mvnpdf([x,y]);
  
 fc = fcontour(F);   

This code generates the following warning:

Warning: Function behaves unexpectedly on array inputs. To improve performance,
properly vectorize your function to return an output with the same size and shape as
the input arguments. 

What should I do to get rid of this warning and increase performance?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

 F = @(x,y) reshape( mvnpdf([x(:),y(:)])  , size(x));

[Martin Due]

When I run this code I still get the same warning message. Is there something else that I might have missed?

[Martin Due]

The suggestion in your edit removes the warning but takes about twice as much time to run as the original code. Thank you for your time nonetheless.

[KSSV]

You will get good help if you share the function.

[Matt J]

Thank you for your time nonetheless.

You're quite welcome, but please Accept-click the answer to indicate that your question was resolved.

The suggestion in your edit removes the warning but takes about twice as much time to run as the original code.

That's definitely not what the test below shows us:

  hfig=figure('Visible','off');
  F = @(x,y) mvnpdf([x,y]);

  tic
   fc = fcontour(F); 

Warning: Function behaves unexpectedly on array inputs. To improve performance, properly vectorize your function to return an output with the same size and shape as the input arguments.

   hfig.Visible='on';
  toc

Elapsed time is 0.479005 seconds.

 

  hfig.Visible='off';
  
  F = @(x,y) reshape( mvnpdf([x(:),y(:)])  , size(x));
  tic
   fc = fcontour(F); 
   hfig.Visible='on';

  toc

Elapsed time is 0.127763 seconds.

[Martin Due]

There might have been some caching at play during my testing, or I simply made a mistake. Thank you for the help! A slight variation of this code snippet runs for thousands of times in my program so the improvement means a lot.

Answer 2

[KSSV]

REad about element by element operations.

https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/array-vs-matrix-operations.html