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Logging duration with System.Diagnostics.StopWatch instead of using DateTime.Now

January 9th, 2009

Still using two DateTime.Now calls to determine the duration of a certain call execution, like beneath?

DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
DoSomeCall();
double secondsToLog = (DateTime.Now - start).TotalSeconds;

This is not at all necessary: using the StopWatch class. The StopWatch class is more efficient than any other solution provided or created in .NET since it uses low-level API calls and supports a high-resolution performance counter (when there is hardware and software support).

Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
watch.Start();
DoSomeCall();
watch.Stop();
double secondsToLog = watch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds;
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  1. Anonymous
    March 7th, 2010 at 03:54 | #1
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    Thanks for writing, I very much liked it.

  2. SergeyNikolaev
    July 30th, 2009 at 01:33 | #2
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