What is the equivalent to System.nanoTime() in .NET?

Question

The title is pretty much self-explanatory, I'm killing myself over this simplicity.

Looked here, but it isn't much helpful.

Answer 1

I think that the Stopwatch class is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

If you want a timestamp to be compared between different processes, different languages (Java, C, C#), under GNU/Linux and Windows (Seven at least):

Java:

java.lang.System.nanoTime();

C GNU/Linux:

static int64_t hpms_nano() {
   struct timespec t;
   clock_gettime( CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t );
   int64_t nano = t.tv_sec;
   nano *= 1000;
   nano *= 1000;
   nano *= 1000;
   nano += t.tv_nsec;
   return nano;
}

C Windows:

static int64_t hpms_nano() {
   static LARGE_INTEGER ticksPerSecond;
   if( ticksPerSecond.QuadPart == 0 ) {
      QueryPerformanceFrequency( &ticksPerSecond );
   }
   LARGE_INTEGER ticks;
   QueryPerformanceCounter( &ticks );
   uint64_t nano = ( 1000*1000*10UL * ticks.QuadPart ) / ticksPerSecond.QuadPart;
   nano *= 100UL;
   return nano;
}

C#:

private static long nanoTime() {
   long nano = 10000L * Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
   nano /= TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond;
   nano *= 100L;
   return nano;
}