Updated January 2024
Most of the benchmarks in this book that test a collection are performed using List<> with a real-world business object Person as a reference type. I was curious about how that would compare to using an array of Person.
Benchmark Results
Here are the benchmark results for iterating over an Array compared to a List<> collection of reference types using for() and foreach().
As evident from these results, utilizing an array is 7.5 times faster.
As evident from these results, using an array is 7.6 times faster.
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