A faster replacement to the Dictionary

Question

I need a fast replacement for the System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary. My application should be really fast. So, the repl

Answer 1

Don't forget, you're timing the Dictionary constructor in that code as well. I did a test, moving the call to the constructor out of the measurement, and looped 10 times. Here's my test code:

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    Dictionary test = new Dictionary();

    System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch watch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();

    test.Add("fieldName", "fieldValue");
    test.Add("Title", "fieldavlkajlkdjflkjalkjslkdjfiajwelkrjelrkjavoijl");

    Console.WriteLine(watch.Elapsed);
}

Console.ReadKey();

Below are the results:

00:00:00.0000607
00:00:00.0000025
00:00:00.0000015
00:00:00.0000015
00:00:00.0000016
00:00:00.0000017
00:00:00.0000016
00:00:00.0000016
00:00:00.0000016
00:00:00.0000015

I'm not sure how much faster you could get than that...

Update

Looks like this mirrors Jon Skeets results too...JIT.