What, if any, is the performance difference between the following two loops?
for (Object o: objectArrayList) {
o.DoSomething();
}
and <
Here is a brief analysis of the difference put out by the Android development team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZOf3pOAM6A
The result is that there is a difference, and in very restrained environments with very large lists it could be a noticeable difference. In their testing, the for each loop took twice as long. However, their testing was over an arraylist of 400,000 integers. The actual difference per element in the array was 6 microseconds. I haven't tested and they didn't say, but I would expect the difference to be slightly larger using objects rather than primitives, but even still unless you are building library code where you have no idea the scale of what you will be asked to iterate over, I think the difference is not worth stressing about.