Performance of C# vs. VFP and ASP
l 1,000,000 string concatenations
§ C#: 190 seconds
§ C# with StringBuilder: 0.3 seconds
§ VFP: 3 seconds
§ ASP 2.0 (not ASP.NET): 7 seconds
l Sum i (i=1 to 1,000,000)
§ C# array: 0.1 seconds (numbers stored)
§ C# array list: 15 seconds (numbers stored)
§ C# collection: 0.1 seconds (numbers generated by method calls)
§ C# dictionary: 4 seconds (numbers stored)
§ VFP code: 1.2 seconds (calculation; nothing stored)
§ VFP build cursor and sum it: 4.5 seconds (numbers stored)