Item6 - Prefer 'for' over 'foreach'. [Performance]
The main differences in using the foreach statement are that you do not need to deal with increments and with the end of the loop expression. Moreover, the foreach statement is designed to traverse through the entire collection.
One can say that foreach is a private case of for.
In the code snippets below, we can see that both loop blocks produce the same results, only under the hood the foreach hurts the performance. More variables are involved and additional heavy array copy.
The foreach is far more handier to use especially for collections but if your code runs over large collections, prefer using 'for'.
//foreach
watch.Start();
int[] arrayOfInts = new int[50000000];
int sum = 0;
foreach (int i in arrayOfInts) {
sum += i;
}
watch.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine(watch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms"); //431ms
watch.Reset();
watch.Start();
//for
sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < arrayOfInts.Length; i++) {
sum += arrayOfInts[i];
}
watch.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine(watch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms"); //313ms
本文对比了foreach和for在处理大型集合时的性能表现,发现foreach虽然使用更便捷,但在性能上不如for。通过代码示例展示了两者在遍历操作上的实际差异。
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