Benchmarkdotnet: [Question] What does the unit of measurement us stand for

[d-saravanan]

I am a bit unaware of what does the unit of measurement "us" stand for. I have seen the timing values in the reports as 654.6 us / 139.0 us. Can you please let me know what does "us" stand for.

"ns" stands for nano seconds and "ms" for milliseconds. but "us" is a bit unclear. Can anyone help clarify me

[AndreyAkinshin]

@d-saravanan, us means Microsecond. In fact, it should be μs, but us is a common replacement of μs (some terminals doesn't support the μ symbol).

[d-saravanan]

Thanks a lot

[AndreyAkinshin]

It seems that the us notation confuses a lot of people (see also https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet/issues/349). I decided to add a hint line about time units in the legend section (see https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet/commit/f14e508e44b510a26cc3ec5aed30ee7843a92baf). So, you will get a line like this:

  1 us  : 1 Microsecond (0.000001 sec)