Cost of dict
Hi,
I'm looking at initialising around 5 dictionaries in a class, intended to store DateTime.now as keys, and then the vaule of some action.
The original class itself will also be stored in a dictionary, with up to 100 other instances of that class.
Will this have any serious implications in terms of overhead / speed in the long haul?
Thanks.
100 objects isn't that much unless you store many megabytes in them.
Having a System.DateTime as a key in a dictionary sounds odd though, since System.DateTime.Now returns at least millisecond precision (probability of a successfull lookup is minimal).
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Thanks,
In the scope of the system the DateTime should always be unique, since it would be impossible to call the same method on the same object within a one second timeframe.
I will consider changing this in the future though
Then why use a Dictionary? Shouldn't a List or SortedList be more suitable?
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agreedOriginally Posted by Magos
