DateTime.Now.Ticks or Utility.GetMachineTime().Ticks

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Hi,

which will be fastes and create less garbage?

DateTime.Now.Ticks or Utility.GetMachineTime().Ticks

2

Good question.

Both return numbers which are not objects, so GC should not be an issue.

As to speed, write a short program to do each 100,000 and measure the elapsed time.

3

If we look inside DateTime.Now it looks like this, there is objects that are created internal in the method which will generate garbage.


public static DateTime Now
{
	get
	{
		DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
		bool flag = false;
		TimeSpan dateTimeNowUtcOffsetFromUtc = TimeZoneInfo.GetDateTimeNowUtcOffsetFromUtc(utcNow, out flag);
		long ticks = dateTimeNowUtcOffsetFromUtc.Ticks;
		long num = utcNow.Ticks + ticks;
		if (num > 3155378975999999999L)
		{
			return new DateTime(3155378975999999999L, DateTimeKind.Local);
		}
		if (num < (long)0)
		{
			return new DateTime((long)0, DateTimeKind.Local);
		}
		return new DateTime(num, DateTimeKind.Local, flag);
	}
}