MATLAB: Tic toc and debug mode

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I am measuring the time required to run a genetic algorithm for a certain optimization task. I'm not interested in measuring how the time varies with the size of the input, I only need the time required for a certain run to converge. Will pausing the script and entering debug mode would also pause the stopwatch (tic…toc); in other words, will the value returned by toc include the time spent in debugging mode? If so, is there any workaround to exclude debug time from the stopwatch?

Best Answer

Yes, the time calculated by tic and toc keeps going during debugging. tic and toc are defined as elapsed time, and time still elapses during debugging. There is no work-around for this.
If you want to know only the time spent on computation then you should be considering using cputime()
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