http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspxBeen a while since I did a Q&amp;A from internal discussion… Here goes, this one recently went over the CLR Performance alias. Question: We were planning to use Hashtable in one of our projects but before we do that we had a question is thaten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#6325587Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:34:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6325587Noticias externas<p>So the Hashtable class (and by extension, any Dictionary&amp;lt;TKey,TValue&amp;gt;) has O(1) performance at</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6325587" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#160564Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:41:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:160564DanielHow much faster is the Hashtable or StringDictionary Class compared to VB's Dictionary object?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=160564" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#140098Mon, 24 May 2004 06:20:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:140098Syed Hamidi want to use a data structure to store values used for developing UI components, I am not able to judge which data structure to use, either Hashtable, also i have some pre-criteria to retrieve values from the data strucutre in the order i have inserted them.. can i go ahead with hashtable and some other data structure which is more optimal in implementation. <br> <br><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=140098" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#70101Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:25:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:70101Julio Acevedoif the number of items in the collection may range from 4000-6000? which is the best option?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=70101" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#50581Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:59:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:50581Brad AbramsStringDictionary is just a strongly-typed wrapper around Hashtable, and thus it would perform the same. There is certainly some usability gain in using strong typing but very, very little performance advantage. <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=50581" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2003/10/20/50579.aspx#50580Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:17:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:50580jefWouldn't be StringDictionary more suitable in this case?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=50580" width="1" height="1">