Re: measuring script speed

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 18, 2011, at 11:49 AM, BVBA NuKey Music wrote:

> I thought I could measure the execution time of a script like this:
> begintime=cputime;myscript;cputime-begintime
> 
> this does not work however with scripts which start with a clear
> command because the begintime-variable gets erased. Therefore I
> thought in stead of deleting the clear statement for the test, I could
> proceed as follows:
> global begintime=cputime;myscript;cputime-begintime
> 
> unfortunately this doesn't work, I also tried this on the linux command line:
> time octave<myscript.m
> 
> this works but I see the octave-environment being opened which could
> falsify the timing results
> 
> so what's the best way to achieve this?
> 
> thanks in advance
> nukey

Try 

        tic (); myscript; toc ()

Ben