Timing algorithms....

hi, i'm working on this project which is basically to implement the various travelling salesman heuristics.

could anyone please tell me how i can time how long a piece of code takes to execute?

i have tried the Timer class but from my understanding, that is for setting alerts and scheduling... i just need a plain timer to start at the top of the code and finish at the end...

any help, would be MUCH APPRECIATED!! :confused:

Code:

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long epoch = System.currentTimeMillis();

myREallySlowLongMethod();

long elapse = System.currentTimeMillis();

System.out.println("code took "+ (elapse-epoch)+" milliseconds to complete!");

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