I just published a blog post called "The Story of TIMEIT." I've been thinking about writing something like this ever since Mike Croucher's tic/toc blog post last spring.
There were a lot of opinions about TIMEIT expressed in the comments of that blog post, including some of mine.
My blog post today gives a more full history of the function, its design goals, and how it works. I thought it might prompt more discussion, so I'm creating this thread as a place for it.
If you are an interested user of TIMEIT, feel free to weigh in here with your thoughts. Perhaps the thread will influence MathWorks regarding what to do with TIMEIT, or with related performance measurement capabilities.
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I really value these types of historic perspectives of MATLAB products.
My workflow to measure perfomance in grad school was similar to what timeit is doing except I stored the durations on each iteration so that I could plot the distribution of durations as a boxchart. After collecting data from two versions of a function, the visualization makes it clear whether there is a winner.
It would be great to have those additional outputs.
I have done similar work in the past, but it often was cumbersome.
It would be great if timeit could take input of two function handles. Then, it could run statistical calculations on runtimes (e.g., t-statistic test) and let the user know (using one of the outputs) if one function really is faster than the other.
That's a great post Steve!
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