Way to know status of parfor loop without printing to command window or saving to file?

I would like to know the status of a parfor loop. I find printing to the command window much faster than writing to a file. Unfortunately though I want the results to print to the command window. Is there a way to write to a file quickly or have multiple command windows?

[Jan]

Writing to a file is usually quick. How did you try it?

Answer 1

[Konrad Malkowski]

Why not send the output to the file and diagnostic to the command window? Alternatively there you can take a look at the following two parfor progress monitors:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/35609-matlab-parforprogress2

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24594-parfor-progress-monitor