cputime

Purpose

Elapsed CPU time.

Synopsis

cputime

Description

cputime returns the CPU time in seconds that has been used by the MATLAB process since MATLAB started.

The return value can overflow the internal representation and wrap around.

Examples

For example

t = cputime; surf(peaks(40)); e = cputime-t
          
e =
     0.4667
returns the CPU time used to run surf(peaks(40)).

See Also

clock, etime, tic, toc

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