Code to profile a method - allows for easy comparison between two similar approaches

benchmark.cs

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Benchmark
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This code has been adapted from the question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1047218/benchmarking-small-code-samples-in-c-can-this-implementation-be-improved
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            Console.WriteLine("Finished");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void Profile(string description, int iterations, Action action)
        {
            // clean up
            GC.Collect();
            GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
            GC.Collect();

            // warm up
            action();

            var watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

            for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
            {
                action();
            }

            watch.Stop();

            Console.Write(description);
            Console.WriteLine(" Time Elapsed {0} ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
        }
    }
}