in VB, String '=' is two orders of magnitude slower than .Equals!

[PJ6]

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[David Browne]

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The article is useless. The author's diagnosis of the problem is way off.
There's no COM interop involved. And the test is done on .NET 1.1. The
performance difference has disappeared in 2.0.

David

 

[Chris Dunaway]

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Did you check out the link in one commenter rebuttal? I tend to
disbelieve that the = is slower because I believe that the testing
methodology was wrong.

Here is the link to a rebuttal:

http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2005/12/07/9298.aspx

Regards,

Chris

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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I strongly recommend to read the comments on this article on the bottom of
the page referenced above.

 

[Guest]

... And the test is done on .NET 1.1. The

performance difference has disappeared in 2.0.

For the record, my testing confirms that under fw 1.1, the (almost) 2 to 1
performance loss of '=' vs .equals is true. I'm glad to hear that the
problem is gone in 2.0.

 

[PJ6]

Sorry, my bad.