If you want to time a segment of code you may do the following. Instantiating Timer is equivalent to Timer.start(). Timer t = new Timer(); String val = searchForStuff(); System.out.println("It took " ...

“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” - Otter (Animal House - 1978) Back in the late 1990's someone gave me a hunk of grey ...