如果java有更好的功能支持就好了，这样需要测量的动作就可以被包装到一个块中:

measure {
   // your operation here
}

在java中，这可以通过匿名函数来完成，看起来太冗长了

public interface Timer {
    void wrap();
}


public class Logger {

    public static void logTime(Timer timer) {
        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        timer.wrap();
        System.out.println("" + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + "ms");
    }

    public static void main(String a[]) {
        Logger.logTime(new Timer() {
            public void wrap() {
                // Your method here
                timeConsumingOperation();
            }
        });

    }

    public static void timeConsumingOperation() {
        for (int i = 0; i<=10000; i++) {
           System.out.println("i=" +i);
        }
    }
}

在Java 8中引入了一个名为Instant的新类。根据文件:

Instant represents the start of a nanosecond on the time line. This class is useful for generating a time stamp to represent machine time. The range of an instant requires the storage of a number larger than a long. To achieve this, the class stores a long representing epoch-seconds and an int representing nanosecond-of-second, which will always be between 0 and 999,999,999. The epoch-seconds are measured from the standard Java epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z where instants after the epoch have positive values, and earlier instants have negative values. For both the epoch-second and nanosecond parts, a larger value is always later on the time-line than a smaller value.

这可以用于:

Instant start = Instant.now();
try {
    Thread.sleep(7000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
Instant end = Instant.now();
System.out.println(Duration.between(start, end));

打印pt7.001。

我们也可以使用Apache公共的StopWatch类来测量时间。

示例代码

org.apache.commons.lang.time.StopWatch sw = new org.apache.commons.lang.time.StopWatch();

System.out.println("getEventFilterTreeData :: Start Time : " + sw.getTime());
sw.start();

// Method execution code

sw.stop();
System.out.println("getEventFilterTreeData :: End Time : " + sw.getTime());

我的答案很简单。对我有用。

long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

doReallyLongThing();

long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

System.out.println("That took " + (endTime - startTime) + " milliseconds");

它运行得很好。分辨率显然只有毫秒级，使用System.nanoTime()可以做得更好。这两种方法都有一些限制(操作系统调度切片等)，但效果很好。

平均几次运行(越多越好)，你就会得到一个不错的想法。

long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
// code goes here
long finishTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
long elapsedTime = finishTime - startTime; // elapsed time in milliseconds

System.currentTimeMillis ();并不是衡量算法性能的好方法。它衡量的是你作为用户看电脑屏幕的总时间。它还包括在您的计算机上运行的所有其他事情所消耗的时间。如果您的工作站上运行了许多程序，这可能会产生巨大的不同。

正确的方法是使用java.lang.management包。

来自http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2008/03/java_tip_how_get_cpu_and_user_time_benchmarking网站(档案链接):

“用户时间”是运行应用程序自己的代码所花费的时间。 “系统时间”是代表应用程序运行操作系统代码所花费的时间(例如用于I/O)。

getCpuTime()方法给出了它们的和:

import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;
import java.lang.management.ThreadMXBean;

public class CPUUtils {

    /** Get CPU time in nanoseconds. */
    public static long getCpuTime( ) {
        ThreadMXBean bean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean( );
        return bean.isCurrentThreadCpuTimeSupported( ) ?
            bean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime( ) : 0L;
    }

    /** Get user time in nanoseconds. */
    public static long getUserTime( ) {
        ThreadMXBean bean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean( );
        return bean.isCurrentThreadCpuTimeSupported( ) ?
            bean.getCurrentThreadUserTime( ) : 0L;
    }

    /** Get system time in nanoseconds. */
    public static long getSystemTime( ) {
        ThreadMXBean bean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean( );
        return bean.isCurrentThreadCpuTimeSupported( ) ?
            (bean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime( ) - bean.getCurrentThreadUserTime( )) : 0L;
    }

}