What is faster: a custom C# components or a compiled plugin?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 12, 2012 at 3:04pm

There is no runtime difference between a C# component or a C# GHA, provided it is the same code. There is however some overhead involved with C# components. The first time they run they need to be compiled (this can take up to several seconds, but it needs to happen only once for the same code), and there's also some extra casting and data copying that goes on. This is not -necessarily- the case for compiled GHA components.

I can tell you though that if you're looking to speed up slow code, you can probably do much more worthwhile things than move it into a GHA file. You need to profile your code so you know where the bottlenecks are and then focus on fixing those.

You an use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch to reliably and accurately measure time between two points in the code.

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on November 12, 2012 at 4:32pm

Thanks a lot David,

I will try the Stopwatch, sounds promising.

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on November 12, 2012 at 4:44pm

Nice post to improve code :) Thanks David for the tip.