Hi guys,
I have a stupid question.

It's faster: C# with XNA or: C++ with DirectX ?
and why ?

Thank you :

Technically cpp/directx might be a tad faster.
Why, well, C# and XNA are wrapping code up, use garbage collection among other things.

In reality you don't need to care about this level of performance gain if you're casually developing games.
The performance advantage may be only minimal and a lot of it depends on the actual implementation.

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It mainly depends on how you code. If you write an inefficient app, it will be inefficient regardless of language.

That said, C++/DirectX are empirically the faster pairing, as these are much lower-level than C# (which runs atop a large framework with substantial overhead) and XNA (which runs atop a smaller framework that runs atop the same framework as C#). Again, you can write two functionally similar applications, and get worse performance in a C++/DirectX app than with a C#/XNA app.

In either case, if you're worried about performance, and are a lone-wolf or small-time indie developer, then you're worried about something that really doesn't matter.

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