Vance Morrison Performance Architect Microsoft Corporation

Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew(); // Something being measured sw.Stop(); Console.WriteLine("Time = {0:f3} MSec", sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

1) Go to Control panel’s Power Options 2) Set to High Performance If you don’t do this, CPU is typically throttled to save power Throttling causes less consistent measurements

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