tic toc and debug mode

I am measuring the time required to run a genetic algorithm for a certain optimization task. I'm not interested in measuring how the time varies with the size of the input, I only need the time required for a certain run to converge. Will pausing the script and entering debug mode would also pause the stopwatch (tic...toc); in other words, will the value returned by toc include the time spent in debugging mode? If so, is there any workaround to exclude debug time from the stopwatch?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Yes, the time calculated by tic and toc keeps going during debugging. tic and toc are defined as elapsed time, and time still elapses during debugging. There is no work-around for this.

If you want to know only the time spent on computation then you should be considering using cputime()