Thank for your help and positive reply

unfortuantelly, I don’t know any high res timer that does not require a hot loop. And therefore would only work correctly on a dual cpu system (and 100%ing one of the cpus.) Not too optimal, is it? And I don’t know how accurate Thread.Sleep(1) would be…

And please be aware of the fact that writing to a log on disk will have a natural delay as well, since hard disks have a seek time of _several_ ms – and therefore might be the real reason why you don’t see the expected interval.

Cheers,
Tobi

Thanks!

Marco

the file you downloaded is not a complete C# program, it just represents a class that helps you time a program. but you have to write a complete c# program for it to work.

You need to write something like this in a second file and compile:

class Example {
static void Main() {
PerformanceTimer timer = new PerformanceTimer();
timer.Start();
// do something here
timer.Stop();
Console.WriteLine(timer.DurationSeconds);
}
}


Please do start with some basic tutorials on C#.
Pick a choose

the Thread.Sleep(0); is there to make it less likely that the to-be-timed thread will be put to suspended state by the thread-scheduler during the timing, because already waiting threads will get the chance to do their work before the timing starts. To quote the documentation on Thread.Sleep:
Specify zero (0) to indicate that this thread should be suspended to allow other waiting threads to execute.

Therefore your conclusion is absolutely correct. The timing will be more accurate since by average the thread will be running with less suspended time. However: ideally your computer should not be occupied at all with other conflicting tasks during execution of the to-be-optimized code anyway.

Thanks,
Tobi