Heap, Stack, Boxing and Unboxing, Performance ... let's order things!

In this article I will shade some lights on some of the most used terms which seems very confusing especially for beginners: heap, stack and boxing and unboxing.

Furthermore we will also encounter internet wisdom like:

Value types get stored on the stack. Reference types on the heap

We discuss why this is wrong and what the hell performance has to do with it?

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