Is datareader quicker than dataset when populating a datatable?

Question

Which would be quicker.

1) Looping a datareader and creating a custom rows and columns based populated datatable

2) Or creating a dataAdapter object and just

Answer 1

The datareader is faster. And if you are using 2.0+ you probablt don't even have to use a datatable. You can use a generic list of your object.