Seems to me that File.Exists() is much slower when the file does not exist or the user doesn’t have access than when the file does exist.
is this true?
This doesn’t make sense to me.
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Seems to me that File.Exists() is much slower when the file does not exist or the user doesn’t have access than when the file does exist.
is this true?
This doesn’t make sense to me.
Generally when you search a bunch of stuff for something, you can’t be sure about their lack of existence unless you have searched all possible places it could have been. When searching for something (in most kinds of collections) the worst case is when the item doesn’t exist in the collection.
I have not benchmarked
File.Existsin particular but I highly doubt that there’s a really noticeable difference in those cases unless you’re doing it thousands of times. How did you reach to this conclusion?