Looking through some google results after searching for tips on porting code from matlab to c/c++ I came across the following response on one forum:
Its not a good idea to use .m to C conversion (using mcc) for any commercial application. Codes produce in this way are far from optimized and are slow to run. Most of the time its used for research in Universities where a grad student is too lazy to do it and uses matlab instead. Infact when your code become complex conversion success is limited.
Wow, they sure tell it like it is. To give myself a little credit, it wasn’t laziness, it was a need for quick and easy visualization. Now, between good old gnuplot and the pngwriter c++ libraries, I have that all sorted out.
Andrew Dawes 