http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/classes/snc_2010/snc_2010.html
SNC_2010 contains some information used when I taught an introduction to timing and optimizing MATLAB programs, as part of Professor Ming Ye's class ISC 3222, "Symbolic and Numeric Calculations", 19/22 November 2010.
I prepared a set of slides for my lectures, available as matlab_fast_2010_fsu.pdf.
During the presentation, I referred to various programs and files, including: