Compute execution time without printing statement?

I am wondering if it is possible to compute the execution time using tic and toc statement but eliminating printing time?

I have a big program ... and it has a lot of printing statements in the middle ...

Is it possible to count the time without the time consumed by printing? or should I stop each printing statement one by one?

[James Tursa]

Do you mean you have lots of disp( ) or fprintf( ) etc. statements, but want to somehow not count them in the timing results?

[Seereen]

Yes I have fprintf and I do no want to count it in the excusion time ! ... is that possible?

Answer 1

[Fabio Freschi]

You can just save the value in a variable

timerValue = tic;
% something very useful to do
tstop = toc(timerValue);

[Fabio Freschi]

The use of timerValue allows you to use different tic/toc statements without confusion or miscalculation

[Seereen]

I have a lof of fprintf statement in my program ... I do not want these fprintf statements to be counted in the excusion time ... is this possible?

[Fabio Freschi]

ok, sorry...

Count the time for printf wit tic/toc like I said and subctract the value from the time of computation

[Rik]

You could also try to shadow the fprintf function, but that is a dangerous business.