Collection Performance: Detecting Items in a ConcurrentBag<>

To determine the presence of items in a ConcurrentBag<>, you can employ either the Count property or the IsEmpty() method. Let’s compare the performance of these two approaches.

Benchmark Results

The benchmark results reveal that, overall, utilizing IsEmpty() is 3.03 times more efficient than relying on Count.

This is how I have it setup in my EditorConfig to check for this issue: dotnet_diagnostic.CA1836.severity = error

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