What are timer ticks, the unit used by Stopwatch.ElapsedTicks

Question

I used to think that

• Stopwatch.ElapsedTicks was equal to
• Stopwatch.Elapsed.Ticks.

But it isn\'t. While the

Answer 1

Maybe it helps to see console output ...

LinkedList 500 insert/remove operations ElapsedTicks : 45871
LinkedList 500 insert/remove operations Elapsed.ticks : 141266
LinkedList 500 insert/remove operations milisec: 14.1266
List 500 insert/remove operations ElapsedTicks: 1235121
List 500 insert/remove operations Elapsed.ticks : 3803744
List 500 insert/remove operations milisec: 380.3744

(From which it is confirmed that Elapsed.Ticks are measured in 100 nanoseconds)