Is it possible to read the internal CPU tick counter from C#?

Question

I have a multithreaded C# program where I need to log how many ticks each thread spends in a specific spin wait lock.

I know there are methods for doing that from C

Answer 1

You could use QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformenceFrequency.
You can find an example here.

System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch should be a high-perfomance counter.
However, it it not present in Compact Framework but the above solution fixes that problem.