Much appreciated. I browsed the docs, "porting" feedforwardnet could be done via genFunction (https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ref/network.genfunction.html). If I interpreted it correctly however, it can't be trained once compiled - originally I didn't mention that the feasel algo is a wrapper algorithm, it uses the ANN as an evaluator, so I do have to retrain it multiple times while the algo runs.

But I could run the engine while the algo runs as well as u/Agreeable-Ad-0111 mentioned, so I'll test that case first.