.NET 4.0 Generics

Benchmarking experiment 1

How much time does it take to check whether an element is present in a list-based collection?

In order to determine whether a given item is in a collection or not, we have to call the Contains() method on linear containers.

The following are the steps to create the benchmarking code that I have used. You shall have to change the Contain() method accordingly, to alter it for the next benchmarking on another equivalent container:

1. Create a console app.
2. In the Main() method, add the following code:

   static void Main(string[] args)
   {
     HashSet<char> codes = new HashSet<char>();
     string alphabets = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
     foreach (char c in alphabets)
     codes.Add(c); 
    Dictionary<int, double> perfMap = new Dictionary<int, ...