Data Container Comparisons
Just when I thought my gratuitous url worries were over, I forgot that I jotted down the following link to Jimmy Nilsson's
articles on Data Containers... actually you can check the url itself, I don't want to double the length of this post. The articles themselves, ridiculous url's not withstanding (Pearson must somehow be behind all of this), are interesting.
The series started a while ago back in February and I read them with mild disdain because he was using a DataReader as his baseline for performance. Naturally DataReaders and performance go hand in hand, but my problem was that it's not really a data container. Sure it has something to do with reading data, daaaaah, but it not really from the same phylum as DataSets, typed DataSets, wrapped DataSets, the FCL collection classes and custom classes in my book. But I found the fourth installment a bit more useful as it compares custom classes to the various styles of DataSets in its benchmarks. Unsurprisingly, custom classes were an order of magnitude faster than DataSets, but again, the framework he's using to compare things is a bit out of kilter imo. Nonetheless, he's a man after my own DTO-loving heart, so I'll just focus on the positive.