I am testing the speed of getting data from Dictionary VS list.
I've used this code to test :
internal class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
List<Grade> grades = Grade.GetData().ToList();
List<Student> students = Student.GetStudents().ToList();
stopwatch.Start();
foreach (Student student in students)
{
student.Grade = grades.Single(x => x.StudentId == student.Id).Value;
}
stopwatch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Using list {0}", stopwatch.Elapsed);
stopwatch.Reset();
students = Student.GetStudents().ToList();
stopwatch.Start();
Dictionary<Guid, string> dic = Grade.GetData().ToDictionary(x => x.StudentId, x => x.Value);
foreach (Student student in students)
{
student.Grade = dic[student.Id];
}
stopwatch.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Using dictionary {0}", stopwatch.Elapsed);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public class GuidHelper
{
public static List<Guid> ListOfIds=new List<Guid>();
static GuidHelper()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
ListOfIds.Add(Guid.NewGuid());
}
}
}
public class Grade
{
public Guid StudentId { get; set; }
public string Value { get; set; }
public static IEnumerable<Grade> GetData()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
yield return new Grade
{
StudentId = GuidHelper.ListOfIds[i], Value = "Value " + i
};
}
}
}
public class Student
{
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Grade { get; set; }
public static IEnumerable<Student> GetStudents()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
yield return new Student
{
Id = GuidHelper.ListOfIds[i],
Name = "Name " + i
};
}
}
}
There is list of students and grades in memory they have StudentId in common.
In first way I tried to find Grade of a student using LINQ on a list that takes near 7 seconds on my machine and in another way first I converted List into dictionary then finding grades of student from dictionary using key that takes less than a second .
