Find Execution time of a Method

Question

I am making an Image Steganography project for my college. I have finished the project and have kept several different algorithms for hiding data in images.

What I want

Answer 1

You can also use BenchmarkDotNet

Then you do:

1) Create a console project with a reference to the code you want to test.

using BenchmarkDotNet.Running;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run();
    }
}

public class YourBenchmarks
{
    [Benchmark]
    public object HideDataUsingAlgorithm()
    {
        return Namespace.hideDataUsingAlgorithm(); // call the code you want to benchmark here
    }
}

2) Build in release and run without debugger.

3) Open the report that is in the bin/release/YourBenchmarks-report-stackoverflow.md

The report contains Median and StdDev by default. BenchmarkDotNet takes care of warmups and launches the process a number of times to give accurate statistics.

Sample report:

                 Method |      Median |    StdDev |
----------------------- |------------ |---------- |
 HideDataUsingAlgorithm | 252.4869 ns | 8.0261 ns |

For configuration read the docs.