What is the Efficiency and Performance of LINQ and Lambda Expression in .Net?

Question

I have used .Net 3.5 and VS 2008 for more than a month. Like most .Net developers, I have evolved from years experience in .Net 1.0 & 2.0 and VS 2005. Just recently, I d

Answer 1

In some cases LINQ is just as fast if not faster than other methods, but in other cases it can be slower. We work on a project that we converted to linq and the data lookup is faster but the merging of data between two tables is much slower. There is a little overhead, but in most cases I don't see the speed difference having much effect on your program.