Thanks for your reply, but a jagged array is not usable in this case. I need to keep all the shorts in my array in a coninous sequence of words and jagged arrays does not behave like that..
So I'll use a single-dim array which is fast enough and pass the second dimension explicity. Reconstructing the two-dim-array in the serialization constructur is easy, but the required overhead in ISerializale.GetObjectData is odd. However it is faster than using the build-in bits. Thanks again Axel -----Original Message----- From: Joel Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sonntag, 5. Mai 2002 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Slow serialization I read in a performance whitepaper that for v1 of .NET, jagged arrays (short[][]) can perform significantly better than 2D arrays (short[,]). They said that this disparity should be eliminated in a future release. Perhaps you should try it with a jagged array and see what happens... You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.