Java - Calculate time taken for the code to execute in milliseconds or nanoseconds

If you want to know how much time did your program took to execute a program or code then you can make use of the following methods from the System class.

1. System.currentTimeMillis()
2. System.nanoTime()

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String... args) {

       long timeMilli1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
       myFunc();
       long timeMilli2 = System.currentTimeMillis();

       System.out.println("Time taken for the code to execute: " + (timeMilli2 - timeMilli1) + " milliseconds");


    }

    public static void myFunc() {
        List mylist= new ArrayList<>();
        for(int i=0;i<=1000;i++) {
            mylist.add("Hello! :"+i);
        }
    }

}

Time taken for the code to execute: 19 milliseconds

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String... args) {

       long timeNano1 = System.nanoTime();
       myFunc();
       long timeNano2 = System.nanoTime();

       System.out.println("Time taken for the code to execute: " + (timeNano2 - timeNano1) + " nanoseconds");


    }

    public static void myFunc() {
        List mylist= new ArrayList<>();
        for(int i=0;i<=1000;i++) {
            mylist.add("Hello! :"+i);
        }
    }

}

Time taken for the code to execute: 19247334 milliseconds