Benchpress

Technique RepeatCount Time RelativeSpeed Throughput
[IO.File]::ReadAllText 100 00:00:00.007362 1x 13581.97/s
[IO.File]::ReadAllBytes 100 00:00:00.015337 2.08x 6519.92/s
[IO.StreamReader].ReadToEnd 100 00:00:00.050469 6.85x 1981.41/s
Get-Content -Raw 100 00:00:00.069980 9.5x 1428.96/s
Get-Content 100 00:00:00.090448 12.28x 1105.6/s