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MATLAB is commonly considered to be an attractive, high-productivity programming environment by many computational scientists and engineers. So-called MEX-files are dynamically linked subroutines produced from, say, C or Fortran source code that, when compiled, can be run directly from within MATLAB as if they were MATLAB built-in functions. When applying automatic differentiation to a MATLAB program that calls external software via MEX-files, code is mechanically generated for the MATLAB part and for the external part in two separate phases. These resulting code fragments need to be put together via new MEX-files. This work introduces a novel software tool called automatic differentiation mexfunction generator that automatically generates MEX interface functions for gluing these automatically generated code fragments.
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Bücker, H.M., Elsheikh, A., Vehreschild, A. (2006). A System for Interfacing MATLAB with External Software Geared Toward Automatic Differentiation. In: Iglesias, A., Takayama, N. (eds) Mathematical Software - ICMS 2006. ICMS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4151. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11832225_37
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