DA0011: Expensive CompareTo

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

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Item	Value
Rule Id	DA0011
Category	.NET Framework Usage
Profiling methods	Sampling .NET Memory
Message	CompareTo functions should be cheap and not allocate any memory. Reduce complexity of CompareTo function if possible.
Rule type	Warning

Cause

The CompareTo method of the type is expensive or allocates memory.

Rule description

CompareTo methods should be efficient and should not allocate memory.

How to fix violations

Reduce the complexity of the CompareTo method.