[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54695] toc before tic

[Rik]

Update of bug #54695 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                

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Follow-up Comment #7:

I also think it is probably more useful for novice to intermediate programmers
to receive an error about a possibly bogus construct, rather than to: 1)
return 0 (which means something) or NaN (better, because it at least says that
this timing value is invalid).

There are multiple workarounds.  The easiest is just to re-structure the
timing code rather than putting it on one line.  I write my benchmarks with
bracketing tic/toc statements on separate lines and it seems clear enough.


N = 10;  # number of iterations
bm = zeros (N, 1);  # timing benchmarks
for i = 1:10
  tic;

  ## code to test here ##

  bm(i) = toc;
endfor




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