Dinesh wrote a blogpost about .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: LINQ perf improvements (LINQ to Objects and LINQ to SQL). There are three perf improvements in the just released SP1
Specialized enumerable: The new implementation recognizes queries that apply Where and/or Select to arrays or List
s and fold pipelines of multiple enumerable objects into single specialized enumerables. This produces substantial improvement in base overhead of common LINQ to Objects queries (at times 30+%).
Make sure to check it out!
Denis has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. Although he worked as an ASP/JSP/ColdFusion developer before the dot com bust, he has been working exclusively as a database developer/architect since 2002. In addition to English, Denis is also fluent in Croatian and Dutch, but he can curse in many other languages and dialects (just ask the SQL optimizer) He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three kids.
