Compute Elapsed Time in Nanoseconds

To compute some execution time we can use nanoTime() method in the System class. There are several other ways to calculate some execution time. But most accurate way is using nanoTime() method. nanoTime() method returns the current value which is a long value of the most precise system timer in Java. But this value is an approximate value.

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class ExeTime{
 public static void main(String srgs[]){
  long before=System.nanoTime();
  long sum=0;
  //some long execution
  for(int i=0;i<10000;i++){
   sum+=i;
  }
  long now=System.nanoTime();
  System.out.println("Time difference : " + (now-before) + " nS");
 }
}

Since : Java 1.5
Output :

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