我提到这个细节是基于for和foreach的收集速度。

List -For循环比Foreach循环略快

ArrayList - For循环的速度比Foreach循环快2倍多。

数组-两者的速度相同。但是Foreach Loop似乎更快一些。

我发现foreach循环迭代列表更快。下面是我的测试结果。在下面的代码中，我分别迭代一个大小为100、10000和100000的数组，使用for和foreach循环来测量时间。

private static void MeasureTime()
    {
        var array = new int[10000];
        var list = array.ToList();
        Console.WriteLine("Array size: {0}", array.Length);

        Console.WriteLine("Array For loop ......");
        var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
        }
        stopWatch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Time take to run the for loop is {0} millisecond", stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        Console.WriteLine(" ");
        Console.WriteLine("Array Foreach loop ......");
        var stopWatch1 = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        foreach (var item in array)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
        }
        stopWatch1.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Time take to run the foreach loop is {0} millisecond", stopWatch1.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        Console.WriteLine(" ");
        Console.WriteLine("List For loop ......");
        var stopWatch2 = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
        }
        stopWatch2.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Time take to run the for loop is {0} millisecond", stopWatch2.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        Console.WriteLine(" ");
        Console.WriteLine("List Foreach loop ......");
        var stopWatch3 = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        foreach (var item in list)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
        }
        stopWatch3.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Time take to run the foreach loop is {0} millisecond", stopWatch3.ElapsedMilliseconds);
    }

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在@jgauffin建议后，我使用了@johnskeet代码，发现使用数组的for循环比下面的更快，

Foreach循环与数组。 For带列表的循环。 Foreach循环与列表。

请看下面我的测试结果和代码，

private static void MeasureNewTime()
    {
        var data = new double[Size];
        var rng = new Random();
        for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
        {
            data[i] = rng.NextDouble();
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Lenght of array: {0}", data.Length);
        Console.WriteLine("No. of iteration: {0}", Iterations);
        Console.WriteLine(" ");
        double correctSum = data.Sum();

        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < Iterations; i++)
        {
            double sum = 0;
            for (int j = 0; j < data.Length; j++)
            {
                sum += data[j];
            }
            if (Math.Abs(sum - correctSum) > 0.1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Summation failed");
                return;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("For loop with Array: {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (var i = 0; i < Iterations; i++)
        {
            double sum = 0;
            foreach (double d in data)
            {
                sum += d;
            }
            if (Math.Abs(sum - correctSum) > 0.1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Summation failed");
                return;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Foreach loop with Array: {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
        Console.WriteLine(" ");

        var dataList = data.ToList();
        sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < Iterations; i++)
        {
            double sum = 0;
            for (int j = 0; j < dataList.Count; j++)
            {
                sum += data[j];
            }
            if (Math.Abs(sum - correctSum) > 0.1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Summation failed");
                return;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("For loop with List: {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < Iterations; i++)
        {
            double sum = 0;
            foreach (double d in dataList)
            {
                sum += d;
            }
            if (Math.Abs(sum - correctSum) > 0.1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Summation failed");
                return;
            }
        }
        sw.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Foreach loop with List: {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
    }

Jeffrey Richter在最近的播客上谈到了for和foreach之间的性能差异:http://pixel8.infragistics.com/shows/everything.aspx#Episode:9317

我遇到了一个案子，foreach比For快得多

为什么foreach在读取richtextbox行时比for循环快

我有一个类似于那个问题中的OP的案例。

A textbox reading about 72K lines, and I was accessling the Lines property(which is actually a getter method). (And apparently often in winforms there are getter methods that aren't O(1). I suppose it's O(n), so the larger the textbox the longer it takes to get a value from that 'property'. And in the for loop I had as the OP there had for(int i=0;i<textBox1.lines.length;i++) str=textBox1.Lines[i] , and it was really quite slow as it was reading the entire textbox each time it read a line plus it was reading the entire textbox each time it checked the condition.

Jon Skeet演示了您可以只访问一次Lines属性(甚至不是每次迭代一次，只是一次)。而不是每次迭代两次(这是大量的次数)。Do string[] strarlines = textBox1.Lines;然后在星线间循环。

但是一个直观形式的for循环访问Lines属性是非常低效的

for (int i = 0; i < richTextBox.Lines.Length; i++)
{
    s = richTextBox.Lines[i];
}

对于文本框，或者富文本框，它非常慢。

OP在一个富文本框上测试了这个循环，发现“有15000行。For循环花了8分钟才循环到15000行。而foreach只花了不到一秒钟的时间来列举它。”

那个链接的OP发现这个foreach比上面提到的他(同一个OP)的for循环要有效得多。就像我一样。

   String s=String.Empty;
   foreach(string str in txtText.Lines)
    {
       s=str;
    }

我的猜测是，在99%的情况下，它可能并不重要，所以为什么要选择更快的，而不是最合适的(最容易理解/维护)?

我不期望任何人发现两者之间的“巨大”性能差异。

我想答案取决于您试图访问的集合是否具有更快的indexer访问实现或更快的IEnumerator访问实现。由于IEnumerator经常使用索引器，并且仅保存当前索引位置的副本，因此我希望枚举器访问至少与直接索引访问一样慢或更慢，但不会慢太多。

当然，这个答案没有解释编译器可能实现的任何优化。