How do you compute the product of a matrix and each column of another matrix without a for loop in MATLAB, or is this just not possible?

A 4x14 matrix (C) is multiplied by each column of a 14xN matrix (x) - hence by N individual 14 element column vectors - to form N individual 4 element column vectors - represented by a 4xN matrix (y) -, where N is a known yet large number, let's assume N = 132 for simplicity.

I use a for loop for this operation:

N = 132;
C = [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,-0.68,0, 1.53;
     0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,-0.64,0,-1.92;
     0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,-1,0, 0.86,0,-1.92;
     0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,-1,0, 0.91,0, 1.53];
x = rand(14,N);
for n = 1:N
    y(:,n) = C*x(:,n);
end
y

y = 4x132

0.8171 0.6519 -0.1231 -0.3986 0.0067 0.5236 0.5635 -0.0142 -0.1589 0.7049 0.0493 0.8107 0.0467 0.3760 0.1629 -0.5810 -0.0014 0.0753 0.1952 0.9694 0.9893 1.0198 0.3636 1.1546 -0.1246 0.2960 0.6670 1.2503 0.7362 0.3130 -1.5713 -0.2918 -2.0231 -1.5203 -0.4916 -1.5073 -0.6379 -1.3672 -1.6384 -2.3884 -1.0684 -1.7009 -1.4159 -1.6700 -0.7916 -0.8800 -0.6646 -0.3746 -1.3475 -0.9698 -2.3454 -0.8660 -1.2379 -1.0661 -2.0218 -0.7671 -1.8403 -1.7703 -1.3348 -1.1637 -0.7278 -0.1535 -0.8238 -0.5070 0.4447 -0.4600 -0.1615 0.2374 -1.0285 -1.2346 -0.3279 -0.5324 0.3478 -1.8978 0.6776 -0.8982 0.0732 -0.0802 0.0912 -0.1890 -2.0549 -1.3461 -1.2515 -0.6147 -1.0407 -1.1961 -1.0804 -1.5745 0.1213 -0.2728 1.0967 1.6059 1.5573 0.2685 1.8956 1.9566 1.2679 1.4401 0.3141 2.0937 0.3331 1.9022 1.2138 1.1691 1.4234 0.3172 0.7299 -0.4859 1.4454 0.6288 1.6082 1.1965 1.0090 2.0954 1.3740 0.2839 1.4502 2.1792 1.8181 0.8593

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This works fine, however, I wondered how this operation could be implemented without a for loop in MATLAB - all variables in the loop are available prior to the first iteration - to utilize MATLAB's matrix multiplication optimization and thus improve runtime performance, or is this just not possible?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

[Torsten]

y = C*x

[Simon]

Oh ... When I implemented the multiplication like that prior to posting the question, MATLAB responded with 'Arrays have incompatible sizes for this operation' and I couldn't figure out why. Because of your answer I tried again and just realized that this error message actually concerned the next line. Now, I honestly feel a little bit embarrassed to having asked such a question. Nonetheless, thank you for your answer and for making me realize the bug! I think I should take a break.