How to get elapsed time of a code in matlab ?

Hello,

I run a code of two variables which does not contain any function. I simply run a partial differential equation using forward difference farmula inside two loops of time and space. I use 'tic' and 'toc' to get the elapsed time of the code at the end. But I need this time in advance as my code takes hours to give result. Can I get the expected elapsed time in advance ?

[dpb]

Not unless you have the Clairvoyant Toolbox, no.

About all you could do would be to time something similar and try to use it as a projection -- or time the particular code for a given number of iterations and then try to scale that based on the total number of loops in the overall code. How successful this might be would be dependent upon whether the solution technique is using fixed time/space steps and not dynamic resizing that would throw the estimates off grossly in all likelihood.

What are you going to do with the value if you have it, anyway?

[Adnan Hayat]

Hello Walter,

Thanks for your answer. I, actually need this value to know if for how long i should leave my computer on in my office and do other stuffs.

[dpb]

Just turn off any power-off settings and, of course, be sure the machine is on an UPS so it doesn't lose power.

Then add code to the end of the process that notifies you by <SendTextMessageFromMatlab> when it's done.

As far as predicting how long that will be other than extremely crudely, that's <Merlin>'s arena...

[Walter Roberson]

How long is it going to take to clean your garage? You are not permitted to use your records of how long it has taken you in the past to clean garages of similar size, and you are not permitted to clean a fraction of the garage and use the timing to estimate the total time.

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

Sorry, but no.

A prediction of the time required for some arbitrary piece of code will never happen. It cannot happen. Well, not true. If you run the code in advance, EXACTLY as you will call it, then the predicted time is just the time it took the last time you ran that same problem.

You can run smaller problems, then figure out how the problem size will extrapolate up, but even that is rarely something you can predict at all well.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22161-waitbar-with-time-estimation