Unit Performance Benchmarking for .NET - simple extension methods based on Eric Lippert's best practices for benchmarking.
##Summary of article:
"Mistake #1: Choosing a bad metric." === Use Average Execution Time
"Mistake #2: Over-focusing on subsystem performance at the expense of end-to-end performance." This library doesn't really do end to end. Sorry. Usually I am optimizing subsystems because I need to maximize performance in a bottleneck area.
"Mistake #3: Running your benchmark in the debugger."
"Mistake #4: Benchmarking the debug build instead of the release build."
"Mistake #5: Using a clock instead of a stopwatch."
"Mistake #6: Treat the first run as nothing special when measuring average performance." Use GetAverageExecutionTime(), which ignores first run performance. GetExectionTime() wil get first run performance if you want it.
"Mistake #7: Assuming that runtime characteristics in one environment tell you what behavior will be in a different environment."
"Mistake #8: Forget to take garbage collection effects into account."
##Nuget Package
Install-Package PulseCheck
##Usage
using PulseCheck.Performance;
new Action(() => { }).GetAverageExecutionTime(1000);
See Program.cs in Demo for more.
##License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Thabo Fletcher
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