How to benchmark Matlab processes?

Question

Searching for an idea how to avoid using loop in my Matlab code, I found following comments under one question on SE:

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Answer 1

The best tool for testing the performance of MATLAB code is Steve Eddins' timeit function, available here from the MATLAB Central File Exchange.

It handles many subtle issues related to benchmarking MATLAB code for you, such as:

• ensuring that JIT compilation is used by wrapping the benchmarked code in a function
• warming up the code
• running the code several times and averaging

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Update: As of release R2013b, timeit is part of core MATLAB.

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Update: As of release R2016a, MATLAB also includes a performance testing framework that handles the above issues for you in a similar way to timeit.