pracma (version 1.8.8)

tic,toc: MATLAB timer functions

Description

Provides stopwatch timer. Function tic starts the timer and toc updates the elapsed time since the timer was started.

Usage

tic(gcFirst=FALSE)
toc(echo=TRUE)

Arguments

gcFirst

logical scalar. If TRUE, perform garbage collection prior to starting stopwatch

echo

logical scalar. If TRUE, print elapsed time to screen

Value

• toc invisibly returns the elapsed time as a named scalar (vector).

Details

Provides analog to system.time. Function toc can be invoked multiple times in a row.

Examples

tic()
for(i in 1:100) mad(runif(1000))	# kill time
toc()