✅ Which of these for-loops is more performant? How can I improve
Not sure if I'm thinking about this correctly or not. Would love to be pointed to resources regarding optimization if you have them. ~skr

/close System.Buffer.BlockCopy| Method | N | Mean | Error | StdDev |
|---------------- |------ |-----------:|---------:|---------:|
| Decode | 1000 | 859.4 ns | 1.70 ns | 1.59 ns |
| DecodeWithSpans | 1000 | 843.9 ns | 2.06 ns | 1.72 ns |
| Decode | 10000 | 8,013.4 ns | 31.75 ns | 26.52 ns |
| DecodeWithSpans | 10000 | 7,857.6 ns | 13.34 ns | 10.41 ns |Unsafe.AddUnsafe.IsAddressLessThanpublic class Solution {
public int[] Decode(int[] encoded, int first)
{
var arr = new int[encoded.Length + 1];
arr[0] = first;
for (int i = 1; i < arr.Length; i++)
{
first = arr[i] = encoded[i-1] ^ first;
}
return arr;
}
}namespace Xor;
public static class Xor
{
public static int[] Decode(int[] encoded, int first)
{
var arr = new int[encoded.Length + 1];
arr[0] = first;
for (int i = 1; i < arr.Length; i++)
{
first = arr[i] = encoded[i - 1] ^ first;
}
return arr;
}
public static int[] DecodeWithSpans(int[] encoded, int first)
{
var arr = new int[encoded.Length + 1];
arr[0] = first;
var encodedSpan = encoded.AsSpan();
var arrSpan = arr.AsSpan(1);
for (int i = 0; i < arrSpan.Length; i++)
{
first = arrSpan[i] = encodedSpan[i] ^ first;
}
return arr;
}
}