How to measure time of matrix multiplication in matab?
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I am using R2023b in case that is important.
For the sake of a project, I am trying to measure the average time of matlab when it multiplies a 96 x 192 matrix with a 192 x 1 matrix.
I have used the following code:
repeats = 100;
tTot = 0;
m = 96;
n = 192;
for j = 0:repeats
A = rand([m,n]);
A(:,1) = 1;
b = rand([n,1]);
tic
c = A * b;
tTot = tTot + toc;
end
tAvg = tTot/repeats
I have run this script a few times on my computer with different values for "repeats":
- If I set repeats to 1, I get the time it takes to complete a matrix multiplication is ~1.25e-04
- If I set repeats to 10, I get the time it takes to complete a matrix multiplication is ~8.75e-05
- If I set repeats to 100, I get the time it takes to complete a matrix multiplication is ~5e-06
It seems quite strange to me that the average changed so much if I increase the value for repeats, so my questions are: Am I doing something wrong when I am measuring the average time? If yes, what am I doing wrong?
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Stephen23
2024-7-10
"It seems quite strange to me that the average changed so much if I increase the value for repeats"
The MATLAB JIT engine would be perfectly capable of deciding to apply different code optimisations depending on the number of iterations that are performed:
Whether it does is another question.
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Steven Lord
2024-7-9
As stated on this documentation page, "Sometimes programs run too fast for tic and toc to provide useful data. If your code is faster than 1/10 second, consider measuring it running in a loop, and then average to find the time for a single run."
Generate the matrices once then wrap the for loop in a tic and toc pair. Inside the loop all you'd do is perform the matrix multiplication.
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