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Another Advantage of Write-Information

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Yesterday, at the end of my post, I mentioned that displaying information on the screen can slow down processing time.  It is true.  Here is a simple test.

First of all, execute this code in the ISE

Function Test-Information
{
[cmdletbinding()]
Param()


For ($X = 0 ; $X -lt 1000; $X++)
{
    Write-Information -MessageData "The value of X is $X"
}

    Write-Information -MessageData "Script Complete" -InformationAction Continue
}

Next execute this line of code.
PS C:\> Measure-Command -Expression {Test-Information}
Script Complete


Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 186
Ticks             : 1860662
TotalDays         : 2.15354398148148E-06
TotalHours        : 5.16850555555556E-05
TotalMinutes      : 0.00310110333333333
TotalSeconds      : 0.1860662
TotalMilliseconds : 186.0662

Take note of the milliseconds.  Now execute this line of code.
PS C:\> Measure-Command -Expression {Test-Information -InformationAction Continue}

Notice that we are using the –InformationAction parameter to tell PowerShell to display the information messages.  Now look at the milliseconds in the measurement data.
Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 443
Ticks             : 4439468
TotalDays         : 5.13827314814815E-06
TotalHours        : 0.000123318555555556
TotalMinutes      : 0.00739911333333333
TotalSeconds      : 0.4439468
TotalMilliseconds : 443.9468


It took more than twice as long to run.  Moral of the story is this.  Let your user decide if they want to see the “extra” information or just let PowerShell run and do its thing.  
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