- 10/20/2025
- 5 minute read
Inlining and structs in C#
In this - somewhat technical and barely usable - blog post, we will have a look at inlining and structs in C#. And how they can optimize performance in some interesting ways.
All posts with Tag struct
- 11/6/2022
- 3 minute read
Mutable value types are evil! Sort of...
You might have heard that mutable value types are evil. But why is that and why does the .NET framework use them then? Are they really that evil?
Let's have a look at a few examples and have a look what is going on!
- 10/11/2022
- 6 minute read
Low-level struct improvements in C# 11
C# 11 brings some major improvements for structs. You remember Span<T>, which you couldn't create?
Now you can. C# 11 allows ref fields in a struct. Why this is a cool thing and what you can do with it, you will see in a minute.
- 4/13/2022
- 2 minute read
default(MyStruct) vs new MyStruct() - what is the difference?
There are multiple ways to create a new struct, either via var myStruct = default(MyStruct) or via var myStruct = new MyStruct(); . Are there any differences?
- 4/8/2022
- 8 minute read
struct vs readonly struct vs ref struct vs record struct
C# knows struct since its down of time. But there are also recent additions like readonly struct, record struct and ref struct.
This article will show what are the differences between those 4.
- 8/1/2021
- 4 minute read
struct Performance
Let's have a small look into structs and how they work when using Equals and GetHashCode. Plus have a brief look into a new C# 10 feature: readonly record struct.