How can I speed up an exponential function?

I am trying to get the (element-wise) exponential of a Matrix but I don't need most of the results. How can I use this to optimize my code. My attempts:

% Speedtest exponential

m=1000;
n=2000;
test1=rand(m,n);

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result=10.^test1;
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tic
test1(test1>0.01)=1;
result=10.^test1;
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result=zeros(m,n);
for it1=1:m
    for it2=1:n
        if test1(it1,it2) > 0.01
            result(it1,it2)=10^test1(it1,it2);
        end
    end
end
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I'm getting the following results:

Elapsed time is 0.095385 seconds.

Elapsed time is 0.021221 seconds.

Elapsed time is 0.167990 seconds.

Any way to do this more efficiently?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

I'm not sure what the issue is since you seem to already know about logical indexing. E.g.,

test1 = your data
x = test1 > 0.01; % your condition
result = zeros(size(test1)); % pre-allocate all of the spots
result(x) = 10.^test1(x); % only calculate the spots you are interested in