I am experiencing some very odd timing behavior from a function I wrote. If I wrap my function inside another empty container function, it gets a 3x speedup.

>> tic; foo(args); toc

time elapsed: ~140 seconds

>>tic; bar(args); toc

time elapsed: ~35 seconds

Here's the kicker - the definition of bar():

define bar(args)

foo(args)

end

Is there some sort of optimization that gets triggered in MATLAB for nested function calls? Should I be adding a dummy function to every function that I write?