http://caramdir.at/blog/2004/08/sorting-in-mono-3-fast-sorts-the-revenge-of-c/ Internet home of Clemens Koppensteiner. Wed, 09 May 2012 03:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://caramdir.at/blog/2004/08/sorting-in-mono-3-fast-sorts-the-revenge-of-c/comment-page-1/#comment-2677 Matt Howells Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:39:16 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=14#comment-2677 If you are worried about the performance of System.Array or System.Collections.ArrayList you should know that C# does allow you to create pointer-based arrays of value types. These are allocated on the stack instead of the managed heap, and there will certainly be no boxing isues. I haven't done any benchmarks but I expect you could achieve results similar to optimised C. Check out the 'unsafe' keyword in the documentation. If you are worried about the performance of System.Array or System.Collections.ArrayList you should know that C# does allow you to create pointer-based arrays of value types. These are allocated on the stack instead of the managed heap, and there will certainly be no boxing isues. I haven't done any benchmarks but I expect you could achieve results similar to optimised C. Check out the 'unsafe' keyword in the documentation.

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