[Mono-dev] [PATCH] Optimize Encoding.GetByteCount

[Paolo Molaro]

On 10/26/06 Atsushi Eno wrote:
> Well, the point of the Ben's question is, compacting GC is likely to
> store array in nursery area (likely, since it could be regarded too
> big to store in nursery area), so nursery allocation and releasing
> might become faster than fixing string pointer which might slowdown GC.

Using the fixed keyword has no runtime cost per se (it will have a
cost only if a garbage collection is performed while it is in effect).
Using fixed (correctly handling empty arrays) is fine in this case.

lupus

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