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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5 Apps
If you've upgraded to Leopard and now find the IDE of the new Matlab release 2007b to be super-slow, create a file called java.opts in your /Applications » MATLAB_R2007b directory, and add the following line to it:
-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true
Then restart Matlab. This will switch Matlab back to using the Quartz drawing enginge (as it was in previous versions of OS X). Please find the original hint for this solution in this thread on the Mathworks Matlab forums.
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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5
Authored by: googoo on Dec 07, '07 08:21:21AM

That works great. Thanks! I hope that they come up with a more permanent solution soon.

-Mark



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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5
Authored by: owlgorithm on Dec 07, '07 08:48:23AM

For those who have older versions of Matlab (I have the 7.0 R14 Student Version), you will have trouble running the IDE itself -- it doesn't launch. I run

$ matlab -nojvm

in the Terminal anyway, so I never noticed this was a problem, but running without the Java Virtual Machine has many advantages anyway, such as that it uses less system resources and reduces crashes.

(In short, to fix a slow Matlab IDE in Leopard, don't use the IDE!)



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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5
Authored by: SkiingOnMars on Dec 07, '07 09:49:31AM

Or if you need Matlab's Java virtual machine support for whatever reason, but don't want to run the IDE:

$ matlab -nodesktop



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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5
Authored by: jhp on Oct 01, '08 11:32:15PM

To make this hint work under R2008a the java.opts file needs to be in

/Applications/MATLAB_R2008a/bin/maci



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10.5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5
Authored by: aaaaaa on Apr 21, '09 05:31:15AM
In Matlab R2009a the file java.opts again needs to be in /Applications/MATLAB_R2009a.app/

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