Filtering generic lists in C#: Are static delegates (predicates) faster?

Question

Let's say I have a class like:

public static class ListFilters
{
    public static ulong FilesLargerThanValue { get; set; }
    public static bool FilesLargerThan(FileData data)
    {
        return (data.Size >= ListFilters.FilesLargerThanValue);
    }
}

and I want to call

ListFilters.FilesLargerThanValue = 1000000;
List<FileData> filteredList = pathScanner.AllFilesList.FindAll(ListFilters.FilesLargerThan);

My question is:

In.Net 2.0, would the code run faster if my ListFilters class is defined as static (and the predicate that goes to List.FindAll is static)?

Answer 1

See this , but I don't think you'll get any improvement. The code inside a static method will not run faster, but the call of a static method could be faster. And I don't think is that what you expect