Performance of LINQ Any vs FirstOrDefault != null

Question

There are multiple places in an Open Source Project (OSP) code I contribute, where it has to be determined if an element in a collection satisfies a certain condition.

Answer 1

Although it has similar implementation, I believe Any is a bit faster because it doesn't have to return an object, which in some cases may be rich, with state and behavior, depends on how well the query is thought out.