I am observing a built in function in Matlab, which is "boundary". It was introduced in 2014b and it is to compute the boundary for a given set of points. Nevertheless, I need to know big o (time complexity) of this function. How can I understand it, could you guide me to a source. Best
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Use [`timeit`](http://es.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/timeit.html) to measure time used by the function? – Luis Mendo Sep 25 '15 at 23:16
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It's difficult to say without knowing what algorithm they use. Convex hull in 2d is `O(n log n)`, so it's at least that. – beaker Sep 25 '15 at 23:20
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Use tic
and toc
to get the time and run for increasingly larger systems then try to fit the data to the standards (n, n log n, n^2, ...).

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I used tic toc, and concluded that "boundary" takes longer than convhull. S – mexes Sep 30 '15 at 20:32