Showing posts with label struct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label struct. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Scenarios when you can use struct

Nice article by Chris Eargle on when we should use structs:

He mentions the following criteria for creating struct

1. Does it represent a single value?
2. Will the instance size be under 16 bytes?
3. Should it be immutable (modifications actually make a new copy in memory, forcing you to pass by ref to methods)?
4. Will this rarely need to be boxed (cast to an object)?
5. Will it usually be short-lived?
6. Will it mostly be embedded in other objects?

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