From 8c15151a4e8f18d03869ab182315afc4cfba70b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Kotowicz <andreas.kotowicz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:21:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added warnings about change in parfor behaviour with matlab
 >= 2014a.

---
 ParforProgressStarter2.m    | 10 ++++++++++
 ParforProgressStressTest2.m |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ParforProgressStarter2.m b/ParforProgressStarter2.m
index 57d8e86..6c50425 100644
--- a/ParforProgressStarter2.m
+++ b/ParforProgressStarter2.m
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@
 %       end
 %   end
 %
+%
+%   !! PARFOR behaviour has changed !!
+%
+%   With Matlab >= 2014a, "parfor" will automatically startup the
+%   parallel pool, even if you don't want it:
+%   "Starting parallel pool (parpool) using the 'local' profile"
+%
+%   With Matlab < 2014a, "parfor" will be ignored and would fallback to 
+%   a simple "for", if parallel pool wasn't manually started.
+%
 %   parfor i = 1 : N
 %       your_crazy_function();
 %       ppm.increment(i);
diff --git a/ParforProgressStressTest2.m b/ParforProgressStressTest2.m
index ac01f72..3c95e9d 100644
--- a/ParforProgressStressTest2.m
+++ b/ParforProgressStressTest2.m
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ function ParforProgressStressTest2(N, run_javaaddpath, show_execution_time)
     
     t0 = tic();
     
+    % !! PARFOR behaviour has changed !!
+    %
+    % With Matlab >= 2014a, "parfor" will automatically startup the
+    % parallel pool, even if you don't want it:
+    % "Starting parallel pool (parpool) using the 'local' profile"
+    %
+    % With Matlab < 2014a, "parfor" will be ignored and would fallback to 
+    % a simple "for", if parallel pool wasn't manually started.
+    % 
     parfor i = 1 : N
         rand(1, 10000);
         ppm.increment(i); %#ok<PFBNS>