Does keyboard slows down the code?

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Alessandro Masullo
Alessandro Masullo el 17 de Abr. de 2015
Comentada: Adam el 17 de Abr. de 2015
Hello.
I was doing some tests to speed up my code, and I realized that having a keyboard in the code slows it down, even if the keyboard is actually never hit.
Here's a code to check it:
% speed test
a = rand;
tic
for i = 1:1e4
if a == 0
keyboard
end
end
toc
tic
for i = 1:1e4
if a == 0
b = 5^2;
end
end
toc
Elapsed time is 0.000195 seconds.
Elapsed time is 0.000025 seconds.
How can this be possible?
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Adam
Adam el 17 de Abr. de 2015
Why would you expect it to make no difference. I don't know how keyboard input is handled by Matlab, but there is obviously an object of some sort created by the 'keyboard' command that gets ready to receive keyboard input. Creation of this object is unlikely to come for free and the Matlab code doesn't know that the user is not going to type anything.

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Robert Cumming
Robert Cumming el 17 de Abr. de 2015
Its to do with the JIT optimisation, the same is true if you insert conditional debug statement in the code, Matlab needs to prepare to stop execution.

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