I have a program which creates a C structure which contains large arrays of various basic data types (ints doubles etc.). What is the most memory efficient way for me to return this data to Matlab from a C mexfunction, while also ensuring all of the memory deallocation is carefully taken care of? I would ideally like to return the whole structure, but methods for returning each array individually are also acceptable.
You may also assume I understand the basics of writing mexfunctions and returning arguments using the basic method of copying the data to an array pointed to by the plhs pointer. As I understand it, this will require creation of a duplicate of the memory, i.e. requiring double the memory, correct me if this is not right.
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