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Whats the most efficient way to copy data from one large byte array to another?

Posted 18-May-11 8:33am

apaka

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It's System.Array.CopyTo, see also System.Array.Clone for exact clone.

—SA

Posted 18-May-11 8:46am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Ed Nutting 18-May-11 14:52pm

Short and sweet, my 5 :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-11 15:03pm

Thank you very much. It's using it can appear long and bitter. :-) Why copying them, I would wonder? Very often better design allows to avoid it.
--SA

Ed Nutting 18-May-11 15:06pm

Yes true but then I have come across an occasion, just one admittedly, when I could see no way round the problem other than cloning the array I was lumbered with, though it was only a small array so it didn't matter much. But yes, in general best not to copy/duplicate ;P

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-11 16:09pm

We agree... :-)
--SA

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DaveyM69 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18T10:28:00

Solution 2

In addition to SA's solution, there is always Buffer.BlockCopy[^] - not sure if it's any more efficient but this SO thread[^] indicates it may be.

Posted 18-May-11 10:28am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-11 17:28pm

Good to know, my 5. Something tells me BlockCopy and Array.CopyTo share the same implementation.
--SA