Linked by Rüdiger Klaehn on Thu 5th Aug 2004 05:00 UTC
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.
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Would it be possible to write, say, a generic sorting function without having the primitives implicitly boxed
Yes. One of the reasons why generics were introduced is that they allow you to write much better performing code. .NET 1.1 sorting can be up to 5x slower than C++ sorting. .NET 2.0 is only roughly 2x slower.
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Andreas