For vs. Linq – Performance vs. Future

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The best practice depends on what you need:

  1. Development speed and maintainability: LINQ
  2. Performance (according to profiling tools): manual code

LINQ really does slow things down with all the indirection. Don’t worry about it as 99% of your code does not impact end user performance.

I started with C++ and really learnt how to optimize a piece of code. LINQ is not suited to get the most out of your CPU. So if you measure a LINQ query to be a problem just ditch it. But only then.

For your code sample I’d estimate a 3x slowdown. The allocations (and subsequent GC!) and indirections through the lambdas really hurt.

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