DataTable.Select vs DataTable.rows.Find vs foreach vs Find(Predicate)/Lambda

Question

I have a DataTable/collection that is cached in memory, I want to use this as a source to generate results for an auto complete textbox (using AJAX of course). I am evaluati

Answer 1

We could speculate about it all day, but since this is not a huge piece of code, why not write each one and benchmark them against each other?

public delegate void TestProcedure();

public TimeSpan Benchmark(TestProcedure tp)
{
    int testBatchSize = 5;
    List results = new List();
    for(int i = 0; i