Microbenchmark

static void Profile(string description, int iterations, Action func) {
    // clean up
    GC.Collect();
    GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
    GC.Collect();

    // warm up 
    func();

    var watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
    for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
        func();
    }
    watch.Stop();
    Console.Write(description);
    Console.WriteLine(" Time Elapsed {0} ms", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}

Profile("a descriptions", how_many_iterations_to_run, () =>
{
   // ... code being profiled
});

var iterations = 10000000;
var testString = ".NET Tips is awesme!";
do
{
  var sb1 = new StringBuilder(testString);
  var sb2 = new StringBuilder(testString) { Capacity = testString.Length * iterations };
  try
  {
    Profiler.Profile("StringBuilder Profiler", iterations, () => sb1.Append(testString));
    Profiler.Profile("StringBuilder Capacity Profiler", iterations, () => sb2.Append(testString));
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
  }
  finally
  {
    Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------------------------------");
    sb1.Clear();
    sb2.Clear();
  }
} while (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.C); // C = continue