When improving the performance of your code, it's often
usefull to know how fast (or slow) your code is running. I was going to show you a neat little class that I've been using for years that wraps some Win32
API functions, but my
pre-blogging research has revealed that my approach is a bit outdated. Since .NET 2.0 there has been just such a wrapper class baked into the framework. It's the
System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class. It's use is simple:
Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch();
timer.Start();
...Code to evaluate goes here...
timer.Stop();
double elapsed = timer.ElapsedMilliseconds;
In addition to getting the
ElapsedMilliseconds, you can also access the Elapsed property to get a
timespan or
ElapsedTicks to get the ticks.
