对于那些关心顺序的人(即希望你的memcmp返回一个int而不是什么都没有)，. net Core 3.0(以及。net Standard 2.1也就是。net 5.0)将包括一个Span.SequenceCompareTo(…)扩展方法(加上一个Span.SequenceEqualTo)，可以用来比较两个ReadOnlySpan<T>实例(其中T: IComparable<T>)。

在最初的GitHub提案中，讨论了与跳转表计算的方法比较，将字节[]读为长[]，SIMD使用，以及对CLR实现的memcmp的p/调用。

继续向前，这应该是您比较字节数组或字节范围的首选方法(对于. net Standard 2.1 api，应该使用Span<byte>而不是byte[])，并且它足够快，您应该不再关心优化它(不，尽管在名称上有相似之处，但它的性能不像可怕的Enumerable.SequenceEqual那样糟糕)。

#if NETCOREAPP3_0_OR_GREATER
// Using the platform-native Span<T>.SequenceEqual<T>(..)
public static int Compare(byte[] range1, int offset1, byte[] range2, int offset2, int count)
{
    var span1 = range1.AsSpan(offset1, count);
    var span2 = range2.AsSpan(offset2, count);

    return span1.SequenceCompareTo(span2);
    // or, if you don't care about ordering
    // return span1.SequenceEqual(span2);
}
#else
// The most basic implementation, in platform-agnostic, safe C#
public static bool Compare(byte[] range1, int offset1, byte[] range2, int offset2, int count)
{
    // Working backwards lets the compiler optimize away bound checking after the first loop
    for (int i = count - 1; i >= 0; --i)
    {
        if (range1[offset1 + i] != range2[offset2 + i])
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    return true;
}
#endif

如果您正在寻找一个非常快速的字节数组相等比较器，我建议您看看STSdb Labs的这篇文章:字节数组相等比较器。它提供了byte[]数组相等比较的一些最快的实现，并进行了性能测试和总结。

你也可以关注这些实现:

bigendianbytearraycompararer -快速字节[]数组从左到右的比较器(BigEndian) bigendianbytearrayequalitycompararer - -快速字节[]从左到右的相等比较器(BigEndian) 从右到左的快速字节数组比较器(LittleEndian) littleendianbytearrayequalitycompararer -快速字节[]从右向左的相等比较器(LittleEndian)

似乎EqualBytesLongUnrolled是上述建议中最好的。

被跳过的方法(Enumerable.SequenceEqual,StructuralComparisons.StructuralEqualityComparer.Equals)不是慢速的。在265MB的数组上，我测量了这个:

Host Process Environment Information:
BenchmarkDotNet.Core=v0.9.9.0
OS=Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
Processor=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU 3.40GHz, ProcessorCount=8
Frequency=3323582 ticks, Resolution=300.8802 ns, Timer=TSC
CLR=MS.NET 4.0.30319.42000, Arch=64-bit RELEASE [RyuJIT]
GC=Concurrent Workstation
JitModules=clrjit-v4.6.1590.0

Type=CompareMemoriesBenchmarks  Mode=Throughput  

                 Method |      Median |    StdDev | Scaled | Scaled-SD |
----------------------- |------------ |---------- |------- |---------- |
             NewMemCopy |  30.0443 ms | 1.1880 ms |   1.00 |      0.00 |
 EqualBytesLongUnrolled |  29.9917 ms | 0.7480 ms |   0.99 |      0.04 |
          msvcrt_memcmp |  30.0930 ms | 0.2964 ms |   1.00 |      0.03 |
          UnsafeCompare |  31.0520 ms | 0.7072 ms |   1.03 |      0.04 |
       ByteArrayCompare | 212.9980 ms | 2.0776 ms |   7.06 |      0.25 |

OS=Windows
Processor=?, ProcessorCount=8
Frequency=3323582 ticks, Resolution=300.8802 ns, Timer=TSC
CLR=CORE, Arch=64-bit ? [RyuJIT]
GC=Concurrent Workstation
dotnet cli version: 1.0.0-preview2-003131

Type=CompareMemoriesBenchmarks  Mode=Throughput  

                 Method |      Median |    StdDev | Scaled | Scaled-SD |
----------------------- |------------ |---------- |------- |---------- |
             NewMemCopy |  30.1789 ms | 0.0437 ms |   1.00 |      0.00 |
 EqualBytesLongUnrolled |  30.1985 ms | 0.1782 ms |   1.00 |      0.01 |
          msvcrt_memcmp |  30.1084 ms | 0.0660 ms |   1.00 |      0.00 |
          UnsafeCompare |  31.1845 ms | 0.4051 ms |   1.03 |      0.01 |
       ByteArrayCompare | 212.0213 ms | 0.1694 ms |   7.03 |      0.01 |

找不到一个我完全满意的解决方案(合理的性能，但没有不安全的代码/pinvoke)，所以我想出了这个，没有真正的原创，但工作:

    /// <summary>
    /// 
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="array1"></param>
    /// <param name="array2"></param>
    /// <param name="bytesToCompare"> 0 means compare entire arrays</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool ArraysEqual(byte[] array1, byte[] array2, int bytesToCompare = 0)
    {
        if (array1.Length != array2.Length) return false;

        var length = (bytesToCompare == 0) ? array1.Length : bytesToCompare;
        var tailIdx = length - length % sizeof(Int64);

        //check in 8 byte chunks
        for (var i = 0; i < tailIdx; i += sizeof(Int64))
        {
            if (BitConverter.ToInt64(array1, i) != BitConverter.ToInt64(array2, i)) return false;
        }

        //check the remainder of the array, always shorter than 8 bytes
        for (var i = tailIdx; i < length; i++)
        {
            if (array1[i] != array2[i]) return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

与本页上的其他解决方案相比，性能:

简单循环:19837滴答，1.00

*位收敛器:4886 ticks, 4.06

unsafcompare: 1636 ticks, 12.12

EqualBytesLongUnrolled: 637 tick, 31.09

P/Invoke memcmp: 369 ticks, 53.67

在linqpad上测试，1000000字节的相同数组(最坏的情况)，每个数组500次迭代。

我想到了许多显卡内置的块传输加速方法。但是这样你就必须按字节复制所有的数据，所以如果你不想在非托管和依赖硬件的代码中实现你的整个逻辑，这对你没有多大帮助……

Another way of optimization similar to the approach shown above would be to store as much of your data as possible in a long[] rather than a byte[] right from the start, for example if you are reading it sequentially from a binary file, or if you use a memory mapped file, read in data as long[] or single long values. Then, your comparison loop will only need 1/8th of the number of iterations it would have to do for a byte[] containing the same amount of data. It is a matter of when and how often you need to compare vs. when and how often you need to access the data in a byte-by-byte manner, e.g. to use it in an API call as a parameter in a method that expects a byte[]. In the end, you only can tell if you really know the use case...

编辑:现代的快速方法是使用a1.SequenceEquals(a2)

用户gil提出了不安全的代码，产生了这个解决方案:

// Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Hafthor Stefansson
// Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license
// Ref: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
static unsafe bool UnsafeCompare(byte[] a1, byte[] a2) {
  unchecked {
    if(a1==a2) return true;
    if(a1==null || a2==null || a1.Length!=a2.Length)
      return false;
    fixed (byte* p1=a1, p2=a2) {
      byte* x1=p1, x2=p2;
      int l = a1.Length;
      for (int i=0; i < l/8; i++, x1+=8, x2+=8)
        if (*((long*)x1) != *((long*)x2)) return false;
      if ((l & 4)!=0) { if (*((int*)x1)!=*((int*)x2)) return false; x1+=4; x2+=4; }
      if ((l & 2)!=0) { if (*((short*)x1)!=*((short*)x2)) return false; x1+=2; x2+=2; }
      if ((l & 1)!=0) if (*((byte*)x1) != *((byte*)x2)) return false;
      return true;
    }
  }
}

它对尽可能多的数组进行基于64位的比较。这依赖于数组以qword对齐开始的事实。它会工作，如果不是qword对齐，只是没有那么快，如果它是。

它比简单的“for”循环快了大约7个计时器。使用j#库执行相当于原来的' for '循环。使用.SequenceEqual会慢7倍左右;我想只是因为它使用了ienumerator。movenext。我认为基于linq的解决方案至少会这么慢，甚至更糟。