Benchmarking Your .NET Core Code With BenchmarkDotNet

Benchmarking your code can take on many forms. On some level Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions such as New Relic can sometimes be considered live benchmarking tools if you are using A/B testing. All the way down to wrapping a stopwatch object around your code and running it inside a loop. This article will be looking more towards the latter. Benchmarking specific lines of code either against each other or on it’s own to get performance metrics can be extremely important in understanding how your code will run at scale.