Hi,
What is the most accurate way of timing a thread or a line of code in C# assuming the application is multithreaded?
Kind regards,
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A:
What exactly do you mean by "timing a thread"?
To just time (in wall time) how long something takes, use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch. I don't believe there's anything to measure the processor time taken by a particular thread. Of course, profilers will help you a lot, but they also affect the timing of the program they're examining, which makes things trickier.
Jon Skeet
2008-10-31 07:31:57
The problem is we have got around 20 threads and want to know the processor tine taken by each thread.
SharePoint Newbie
2008-11-01 18:29:51
Is there no way that you can isolate the threads to benchmark each individually? You could use a profiler to get an idea of what's taking a long time within your threads, but that *will* affect the overall performance. (More for the more accurate instrumentation measures, less for sampling.)
Jon Skeet
2008-11-01 19:25:23
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A:
If you need to accurately time operations in .NET, you want the Stopwatch class (which wraps the Windows QueryPerformanceCounter API). Check out this post for thread timing considerations.
Mitch Wheat
2008-10-31 07:32:58