Parsing Performance (If, TryParse, Try-Catch)

Question

I know plenty about the different ways of handling parsing text for information. For parsing integers for example, what kind of performance can be expected. I am wondering i

Answer 1

Here's another chap who's also profiled the performance differences, and does so with a few different data types to see how much (if at all) they inherently affect the performance: int, bool, and DateTime.