Is there a way to count the number of IL instructions executed?

Question

I want to do some benchmarking of a C# process, but I don\'t want to use time as my vector - I want to count the number of IL instructions that get executed in a particular

Answer 1

You could use ICorDebug which has a managed interface. Chuck a break point at the beginning of the method and programmaticly step through the code till it leaves the method.

However, I am not sure how useful the metric will be, people tend to use time for this kind of stuff. Some IL instructions are more expensive than others.