.NET garbage profiling: calculate how much garbage a piece of code is making

Question

I would like to write a utility class that will help me determine how much garbage a certain piece of code is making.

Something I can use like this: GarbageProfiler.Start(); and int numGarbage = GarbageProfiler.End();

Idea is simple enough. But does it make sense to do so? Are there any tools out there to do just this?

Answer 1

But does it make sense to do so?

No.

You would at least have to differentiate between the Generations of the garbage.

The memory that a certain piece of code allocates and still holds at the end is (can be) much more expensive than the objects it quickly released.