Any Performance comparison between .NET CF 2.0 & 3.5?

[José Joye]

Hello,
I'm looking for some performance comparison between .NET Compact Framework
2.0 (sp2) and 3.5.
Is there anything available directly from MS or 3rd parties? Was not able to
find such paper for version 3.5.

Thanks for any info or links!
- José

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Here's what I'd suggest: install the device SDK of the device that you are
planning to target. If you are targeting Windows Mobile, choose an
appropriate SDK and install that. Next, using Visual Studio 2008 build two
applications, one targeting 2.0 and one targeting 3.5. Next, include the
critical code that you need to test and run the two programs on devices with
2.0 and 3.5 installed, respectively. That's really the only *useful*
benchmark: what you want to do on a device that you will be targeting.
Random benchmarks are pretty useless, otherwise. 3.5 is "somewhat faster"
for ordinary operations like opening forms. Other than that, what you care
about is what should matter to you. If you have a question about a specific
performance area, ask it. We can't tell what you need, otherwise.

Paul T.

 

[Simon Hart [MVP]]

There were many performance improvements going from CF 1.0 and CF 2.0 as this
was a target area for improvement. But CF 3.5 I don't think many areas if any
were touched.

 

[Nebo]

I would say there is no performance improvement. I have tested both
and see no benefit to 3.5 unless you need the features included with
that version.

A few tools we have built were originally done in 3.5 and we saw no
benefit and rolled back to 2.0.

Nebo
http://sites.google.com/site/nebowiki/