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Use LinqPad for your Micro Benchmarks

I’m a big fan of LinqPad. Anytime I need to test a small code snippet, it is my 'goto' tool.

Today I was looking at the latest beta release where I noticed the following announcement:

LINQPad now lets you benchmark code with a single keypress! Simply select the code you want to benchmark, and press Ctrl+Shift+B. LINQPad uses the industrial-grade BenchmarkDotNet library as the underlying engine, while providing a customizable real-time graphical display of results. For a complete tutorial, press Ctrl+F1 and type benchmark.

Whow! That looks great! Let’s give this feature a try:

  • Download and extra the LinqPad 7 Beta release.
  • Run LinqPad.

  • At the top change the Language to ‘C# Program’.

  • Now paste the following code:
  • Select the 2 methods at the bottom and hit Ctrl+Shift+B.

  • LinqPad will ask you to download BenchmarkDotNet. Click Yes to continue.

  • After downloading the NuGet package and it’s dependencies, click ‘I Accept’ to accept the License conditions.

  • Now LinqPad will start a benchmark run and visualize the results.

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