Double.TryParse or Convert.ToDouble – which is faster and safer?

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I did a quick non-scientific test in Release mode. I used two inputs: “2.34523” and “badinput” into both methods and iterated 1,000,000 times.

Valid input:

Double.TryParse = 646ms
Convert.ToDouble = 662 ms

Not much different, as expected. For all intents and purposes, for valid input, these are the same.

Invalid input:

Double.TryParse = 612ms
Convert.ToDouble = ..

Well.. it was running for a long time. I reran the entire thing using 1,000 iterations and Convert.ToDouble with bad input took 8.3 seconds. Averaging it out, it would take over 2 hours. I don’t care how basic the test is, in the invalid input case, Convert.ToDouble‘s exception raising will ruin your performance.

So, here’s another vote for TryParse with some numbers to back it up.

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