title: Is there any (performance) difference between Debug and Release?
body: <p>I'm using MySql Connector .NET to load an account and transfer it to the client.
  This operation is rather intensive, considering the child elements of the account to load.</p>
  
  <p>In Debug mode, it takes, at most, 1 second to load the account. The average would be 500ms.
  In Release mode, it takes from 1 to 4 seconds to load the account. The average would be 1500ms.</p>
  
  <p>Since there is no <code>#if DEBUG</code> directive or the like in my code, I'm wondering where the difference is coming from.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a project build option I could change? Or does it have to do with MySql Connector .NET that would have different behaviors depending on the build mode?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Ticks monitoring.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Debug (Average: 213000 ticks)
  730000
  320000
  60000
  50000
  190000
  130000
  210000
  180000
  160000
  110000
  390000
  270000
  150000
  190000
  230000
  210000
  150000
  200000
  190000
  140000
  
  Release (Average: 4404500 ticks)
  12940000
  170000
  180000
  80000
  80000
  130000
  120000
  5060000
  5090000
  130000
  50000
  10430000
  25160000
  150000
  160000
  130000
  17620000
  10160000
  100000
  150000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Comparison:</p>
  
  <p>Release takes 20x the time Debug takes (average comparison).</p>
  
  <p>4,404,500 / 213,000 = 20</p>
  
  <p>Now the first operation is indeed longer, but in general, so are all the other times for release.
  Any idea?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 2</strong>: I added even a broader tests that calculates the total time. For 50 account loads, it takes an average of 4 seconds in debugs, and 40 seconds in release. I'm starting to get quite desperate over this - it is a serious performance issue for my application. Does anyone have a guess on how to fix this?</p>