[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Field Layout Optimization

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:24, Ben Maurer wrote:
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>       * Is it correct to load strings that are stored in literal fields
>         as interned. The reason I did this was to ensure that we dont
>         create a string on each access (which is incorrect). However, I
>         am not sure if it shoudl be interned.

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/04/22/51371.aspx

.NET automatically interns all strings literals inside the assembly when
the assembly is loaded.  The blog notes that: 

        This is expensive and -- in retrospect -- may have been a
        mistake.  In the future we might consider allowing individual
        assemblies to opt-in or opt-out.

For compatibility, we'll probably want to do the same, which is what
you're doing.  So this is the path of least resistance. :-)

 - Jon