这是性能之间相互比较的可视化表示。

这是性能之间相互比较的可视化表示。

查看SortedList的MSDN页面:

备注部分:

The SortedList<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>) generic class is a binary search tree with O(log n) retrieval, where n is the number of elements in the dictionary. In this, it is similar to the SortedDictionary<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>) generic class. The two classes have similar object models, and both have O(log n) retrieval. Where the two classes differ is in memory use and speed of insertion and removal: SortedList<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>) uses less memory than SortedDictionary<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>). SortedDictionary<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>) has faster insertion and removal operations for unsorted data, O(log n) as opposed to O(n) for SortedList<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>). If the list is populated all at once from sorted data, SortedList<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>) is faster than SortedDictionary<(Of <(TKey, TValue>)>).

索引访问(这里提到)是实际的区别。 如果需要访问后继对象或前任对象，则需要SortedList。SortedDictionary无法做到这一点，因此您在如何使用排序(first / foreach)方面受到相当的限制。

是的，它们的表现特征有很大不同。将它们命名为SortedList和SortedTree可能更好，因为这样可以更准确地反映实现。

查看它们各自的MSDN文档(SortedList, SortedDictionary)，了解不同情况下不同操作的性能细节。下面是一个很好的总结(来自SortedDictionary文档):

The SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue> generic class is a binary search tree with O(log n) retrieval, where n is the number of elements in the dictionary. In this, it is similar to the SortedList<TKey, TValue> generic class. The two classes have similar object models, and both have O(log n) retrieval. Where the two classes differ is in memory use and speed of insertion and removal: SortedList<TKey, TValue> uses less memory than SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue>. SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue> has faster insertion and removal operations for unsorted data, O(log n) as opposed to O(n) for SortedList<TKey, TValue>. If the list is populated all at once from sorted data, SortedList<TKey, TValue> is faster than SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue>.

(SortedList实际上维护一个排序的数组，而不是使用树。它仍然使用二进制搜索来查找元素。)

如果有用的话，这里有一个表格视图。

从性能角度看:

+------------------+---------+----------+--------+----------+----------+---------+
| Collection       | Indexed | Keyed    | Value  | Addition |  Removal | Memory  |
|                  | lookup  | lookup   | lookup |          |          |         |
+------------------+---------+----------+--------+----------+----------+---------+
| SortedList       | O(1)    | O(log n) | O(n)   | O(n)*    | O(n)     | Lesser  |
| SortedDictionary | O(n)**  | O(log n) | O(n)   | O(log n) | O(log n) | Greater |
+------------------+---------+----------+--------+----------+----------+---------+

  * Insertion is O(log n) for data that are already in sort order, so that each 
    element is added to the end of the list. If a resize is required, that element
    takes O(n) time, but inserting n elements is still amortized O(n log n).
    list.
** Available through enumeration, e.g. Enumerable.ElementAt.

从实现的角度来看:

+------------+---------------+----------+------------+------------+------------------+
| Underlying | Lookup        | Ordering | Contiguous | Data       | Exposes Key &    |
| structure  | strategy      |          | storage    | access     | Value collection |
+------------+---------------+----------+------------+------------+------------------+
| 2 arrays   | Binary search | Sorted   | Yes        | Key, Index | Yes              |
| BST        | Binary search | Sorted   | No         | Key        | Yes              |
+------------+---------------+----------+------------+------------+------------------+

粗略地解释一下，如果需要原始性能，SortedDictionary可能是更好的选择。如果需要较少的内存开销和索引检索，SortedList更适合。关于何时使用哪个，请参阅这个问题。

你可以在这里，这里，这里，这里和这里阅读更多。