Time to run a program

Hi,

I have a program running since yesterday. I am wondering if there is a way to test and approximate how much time a program should take to finish because i am wondering what if it keeps on running for ages.

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

If your program runs a loop:

• you can print at which iteration it is with disp
• or you can use waitbar (but unless they improved its performance it's gonna slow you down a bit)
• or use one of the many ASCII waitbar submissions (won't impact on the program as much as a graphical bar)

[Walter Roberson]

Though unfortunately all of the above have to be implemented _before_ the program is run. Once the program is running, there is no way to query the state of the program.