Question

Since performance of string concatenation is quite weak in VB6 I’m testing several StringBuilder implementations. To see how long they’re running, I currently use the built-in

Timer

function which only gives me the number of seconds that have passed after midnight.

Is there a way (I guess by importing a system function) to get something with milliseconds precision?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use the Win32 API:

DWORD WINAPI GetTickCount(void);

To import it in VB6 declare it like this:

Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long

Call it before the operation and after and then calculate the difference in time passed.