Is DateTime.Now the best way to measure a function’s performance? [closed]
No, it’s not. Use the Stopwatch (in System.Diagnostics) Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew(); PerformWork(); sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine(“Time taken: {0}ms”, sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds); Stopwatch automatically checks for the existence of high-precision timers. It is worth mentioning that DateTime.Now often is quite a bit slower than DateTime.UtcNow due to the work that has to be done with timezones, DST and such. … Read more