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		tedunangst on July 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s Faster Because It’s C Good luck trying to carefully align your C# arrays so that the length field (at index -1 and read accessed on basically every write) isn't in the same cache line as the 0th element the CPU across the bus is writing to.

barrkel on July 14, 2010 [–]

The nice thing about using C# is that you don't need to use an array, if this is critical. With unsafe code, you can all but write C.

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