Fastest way to separate the digits of an int into an array in .NET?

Question

I want to separate the digits of an integer, say 12345, into an array of bytes {1,2,3,4,5}, but I want the most performance effective way to do that, because my program does tha

Answer 1

Millions of times isn't that much.

// input: int num >= 0
List digits = new List();
while (num > 0)
{
   byte digit = (byte) (num % 10);
   digits.Insert(0, digit);  // Insert to preserve order
   num = num / 10;
}

// if you really want it as an array
byte[] bytedata = digits.ToArray();

Note that this could be changed to cope with negative numbers if you change byte to sbyte and test for num != 0.