. net 3.5及更新版本有一个新的公共类型System.Data.Linq.Binary，它封装了byte[]。它实现了IEquatable<Binary>，(实际上)比较两个字节数组。注意System.Data.Linq.Binary也有来自byte[]的隐式转换运算符。

MSDN文档:System.Data.Linq.Binary

Equals方法的反射器反编译:

private bool EqualsTo(Binary binary)
{
    if (this != binary)
    {
        if (binary == null)
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (this.bytes.Length != binary.bytes.Length)
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (this.hashCode != binary.hashCode)
        {
            return false;
        }
        int index = 0;
        int length = this.bytes.Length;
        while (index < length)
        {
            if (this.bytes[index] != binary.bytes[index])
            {
                return false;
            }
            index++;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

有趣的是，只有当两个Binary对象的哈希值相同时，它们才会进行逐字节比较循环。然而，这是以在二进制对象的构造函数中计算哈希值为代价的(通过使用for loop:-)遍历数组)。

上述实现意味着，在最坏的情况下，您可能必须遍历数组三次:首先计算array1的哈希值，然后计算array2的哈希值，最后(因为这是最坏的情况，长度和哈希值相等)比较array1中的字节和数组2中的字节。

总的来说，即使System.Data.Linq.Binary被内置到BCL中，我不认为这是比较两个字节数组的最快方法:-|。

我发布了一个类似的关于检查byte[]是否全是0的问题。(SIMD代码被打败了，所以我从这个答案中删除了它。)下面是我比较过的最快的代码:

static unsafe bool EqualBytesLongUnrolled (byte[] data1, byte[] data2)
{
    if (data1 == data2)
        return true;
    if (data1.Length != data2.Length)
        return false;

    fixed (byte* bytes1 = data1, bytes2 = data2) {
        int len = data1.Length;
        int rem = len % (sizeof(long) * 16);
        long* b1 = (long*)bytes1;
        long* b2 = (long*)bytes2;
        long* e1 = (long*)(bytes1 + len - rem);

        while (b1 < e1) {
            if (*(b1) != *(b2) || *(b1 + 1) != *(b2 + 1) || 
                *(b1 + 2) != *(b2 + 2) || *(b1 + 3) != *(b2 + 3) ||
                *(b1 + 4) != *(b2 + 4) || *(b1 + 5) != *(b2 + 5) || 
                *(b1 + 6) != *(b2 + 6) || *(b1 + 7) != *(b2 + 7) ||
                *(b1 + 8) != *(b2 + 8) || *(b1 + 9) != *(b2 + 9) || 
                *(b1 + 10) != *(b2 + 10) || *(b1 + 11) != *(b2 + 11) ||
                *(b1 + 12) != *(b2 + 12) || *(b1 + 13) != *(b2 + 13) || 
                *(b1 + 14) != *(b2 + 14) || *(b1 + 15) != *(b2 + 15))
                return false;
            b1 += 16;
            b2 += 16;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < rem; i++)
            if (data1 [len - 1 - i] != data2 [len - 1 - i])
                return false;

        return true;
    }
}

测量两个256MB字节数组:

UnsafeCompare                           : 86,8784 ms
EqualBytesSimd                          : 71,5125 ms
EqualBytesSimdUnrolled                  : 73,1917 ms
EqualBytesLongUnrolled                  : 39,8623 ms

P/调用能力激活!

[DllImport("msvcrt.dll", CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
static extern int memcmp(byte[] b1, byte[] b2, long count);

static bool ByteArrayCompare(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
{
    // Validate buffers are the same length.
    // This also ensures that the count does not exceed the length of either buffer.  
    return b1.Length == b2.Length && memcmp(b1, b2, b1.Length) == 0;
}

我使用附带的。net 4.7发布版本做了一些测量，没有附带调试器。我认为人们一直在使用错误的度量，因为如果你关心这里的速度，你所关心的是计算两个字节数组是否相等需要多长时间。即以字节为单位的吞吐量。

StructuralComparison :              4.6 MiB/s
for                  :            274.5 MiB/s
ToUInt32             :            263.6 MiB/s
ToUInt64             :            474.9 MiB/s
memcmp               :           8500.8 MiB/s

正如你所看到的，没有比memcmp更好的方法了，而且它快了几个数量级。简单的for循环是次优选择。我仍然不明白为什么微软不能简单地包含一个缓冲区。比较方法。

[Program.cs]:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace memcmp
{
    class Program
    {
        static byte[] TestVector(int size)
        {
            var data = new byte[size];
            using (var rng = new System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider())
            {
                rng.GetBytes(data);
            }
            return data;
        }

        static TimeSpan Measure(string testCase, TimeSpan offset, Action action, bool ignore = false)
        {
            var t = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            var n = 0L;
            while (t.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))
            {
                action();
                n++;
            }
            var elapsed = t.Elapsed - offset;
            if (!ignore)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"{testCase,-16} : {n / elapsed.TotalSeconds,16:0.0} MiB/s");
            }
            return elapsed;
        }

        [DllImport("msvcrt.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
        static extern int memcmp(byte[] b1, byte[] b2, long count);

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // how quickly can we establish if two sequences of bytes are equal?

            // note that we are testing the speed of different comparsion methods

            var a = TestVector(1024 * 1024); // 1 MiB
            var b = (byte[])a.Clone();

            // was meant to offset the overhead of everything but copying but my attempt was a horrible mistake... should have reacted sooner due to the initially ridiculous throughput values...
            // Measure("offset", new TimeSpan(), () => { return; }, ignore: true);
            var offset = TimeZone.Zero

            Measure("StructuralComparison", offset, () =>
            {
                StructuralComparisons.StructuralEqualityComparer.Equals(a, b);
            });

            Measure("for", offset, () =>
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i++)
                {
                    if (a[i] != b[i]) break;
                }
            });

            Measure("ToUInt32", offset, () =>
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i += 4)
                {
                    if (BitConverter.ToUInt32(a, i) != BitConverter.ToUInt32(b, i)) break;
                }
            });

            Measure("ToUInt64", offset, () =>
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i += 8)
                {
                    if (BitConverter.ToUInt64(a, i) != BitConverter.ToUInt64(b, i)) break;
                }
            });

            Measure("memcmp", offset, () =>
            {
                memcmp(a, b, a.Length);
            });
        }
    }
}

让我们再加一个!

最近微软发布了一个特殊的NuGet包System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe。它的特殊之处在于它是用IL编写的，并且提供了c#中无法直接使用的低级功能。

它的一个方法unsafety . as <T>(object)允许将任何引用类型转换为另一个引用类型，跳过任何安全检查。这通常是一个非常糟糕的主意，但如果两种类型具有相同的结构，它就可以工作。因此，我们可以使用这个函数将字节[]转换为长[]:

bool CompareWithUnsafeLibrary(byte[] a1, byte[] a2)
{
    if (a1.Length != a2.Length) return false;

    var longSize = (int)Math.Floor(a1.Length / 8.0);
    var long1 = Unsafe.As<long[]>(a1);
    var long2 = Unsafe.As<long[]>(a2);

    for (var i = 0; i < longSize; i++)
    {
        if (long1[i] != long2[i]) return false;
    }

    for (var i = longSize * 8; i < a1.Length; i++)
    {
        if (a1[i] != a2[i]) return false;
    }

    return true;
}

注意long1。Length仍然会返回原始数组的长度，因为它存储在数组内存结构中的字段中。

这个方法没有这里演示的其他方法那么快，但它比朴素方法快得多，不使用不安全的代码或P/Invoke或固定，实现非常简单(IMO)。以下是我的机器上的一些BenchmarkDotNet结果:

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.10.3.0, OS=Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
Processor=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4870HQ CPU 2.50GHz, ProcessorCount=8
Frequency=2435775 Hz, Resolution=410.5470 ns, Timer=TSC
  [Host]     : Clr 4.0.30319.42000, 64bit RyuJIT-v4.6.1637.0
  DefaultJob : Clr 4.0.30319.42000, 64bit RyuJIT-v4.6.1637.0

                 Method |          Mean |    StdDev |
----------------------- |-------------- |---------- |
          UnsafeLibrary |   125.8229 ns | 0.3588 ns |
          UnsafeCompare |    89.9036 ns | 0.8243 ns |
           JSharpEquals | 1,432.1717 ns | 1.3161 ns |
 EqualBytesLongUnrolled |    43.7863 ns | 0.8923 ns |
              NewMemCmp |    65.4108 ns | 0.2202 ns |
            ArraysEqual |   910.8372 ns | 2.6082 ns |
          PInvokeMemcmp |    52.7201 ns | 0.1105 ns |

我还为所有测试创建了一个要点。

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 |