Tic, Toc Behavior
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Cillian Hayde
on 19 Nov 2020
Commented: Cillian Hayde
on 19 Nov 2020
Hi,
I'm curious about the behaviour of Tic-Toc.
Tic-Toc excutes faster in a loop than outside a loop.
Does anyone know exactly why? Some sort of JIT compiliation issue?
Loop Version
TicTocLoop = 0;
for i =1:1:1
tic;
TicTocLoop(i) = toc;
end
TicTocLoop
TicTocLoop = 4.8400e-05
Non-Loop Version
TicTocValue = 0;
tic;
TicTocValue = toc;
TicTocValue
TicTocValue = 0.0011
My setup is
MATLAB 2020b
Windows 10
Using Live Script
Thanks for any help
Regards
Cillian
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Fangjun Jiang
on 19 Nov 2020
for the sake of fair comparison, the code below should give you reasonable results
%%
TicTocLoop=0;
TicTocValue=0;
for i =1:1:1
tic;
TicTocLoop = toc
end
tic;
TicTocValue=toc
TicTocLoop =
2.7100e-05
TicTocValue =
1.2300e-05
TicTocLoop =
2.4100e-05
TicTocValue =
1.3000e-05
TicTocLoop =
2.4400e-05
TicTocValue =
1.3300e-05
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John D'Errico
on 19 Nov 2020
Using tic and toc to masure any time is a bad idea.
Using tic and toc to masure any time is a bad idea.
Using tic and toc to masure any time is a bad idea.
There, I've said it three times, so it must be true.
Use better tools, best, use timeit. Also you can use the profiler tool, although profiled code will run more slowly, since MATLAB needs to maintian statistics on everything.
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Rik
on 19 Nov 2020
Edited: Rik
on 19 Nov 2020
Not bad, just often misused. tic and toc should be reserved for situations where you don't care about precision beyond (let's grab a random number) 0.1 second. Actual profiling should be done with the profiler, timing should be done with timeit, and counting seconds can be done with tic. toc.
It is almost as if these names were not chosen randomly (even if tictoc predates the other two).
John D'Errico
on 19 Nov 2020
True about the misused statement. :)
And at times, I use tic and toc myself. But I only ever do that if I warm up the functions in advance, and only for cases when the multiple runs that timeit will perform would be way to time intensive.
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