Measure execution time for a Java method [duplicate]

How do I calculate the time taken for the execution of a method in Java?

Solution 1:

To be more precise, I would use nanoTime() method rather than currentTimeMillis():

long startTime = System.nanoTime();
myCall(); 
long stopTime = System.nanoTime();
System.out.println(stopTime - startTime);

In Java 8 (output format is ISO-8601):

Instant start = Instant.now();
Thread.sleep(63553);
Instant end = Instant.now();
System.out.println(Duration.between(start, end)); // prints PT1M3.553S

Guava Stopwatch:

Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.createStarted();
myCall();
stopwatch.stop(); // optional
System.out.println("Time elapsed: "+ stopwatch.elapsed(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));

Solution 2:

You can take timestamp snapshots before and after, then repeat the experiments several times to average to results. There are also profilers that can do this for you.

From "Java Platform Performance: Strategies and Tactics" book:

With System.currentTimeMillis()

class TimeTest1 {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

      long total = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
         total += i;
      }

      long stopTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
      long elapsedTime = stopTime - startTime;
      System.out.println(elapsedTime);
   }
}

With a StopWatch class

You can use this StopWatch class, and call start() and stop before and after the method.

class TimeTest2 {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch().start();

      long total = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
         total += i;
      }

      timer.stop();
      System.out.println(timer.getElapsedTime());
   }
}

See here (archived).

NetBeans Profiler:

Application Performance Application

Performance profiles method-level CPU performance (execution time). You can choose to profile the entire application or a part of the application.

See here.