Comments on: Exploring C# Boxing

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:57:59 +0000

Marcin,
While I don’t use C# at work or necessarily on a day-to-day basis, I remember Jon Skeet saying (either in his excellent C# in Depth book or on an interview on .NET Rocks!) that the occurrence of casting issues in boxing and unboxing were relatively rare, so it sounds like your experience is quite possibly typical.

Still, I think having strong type-checking is a great added feature, even if it isn’t that common of an issue.

Martijn, this was a very good post. I was directed here from DotNetKicks, and was a little confused about why anyone was still talking about boxing, but your comparison to generics and the table showing the time difference really drove the point home: use generics!

By: Martijn

Martijn — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:04:50 +0000

@Marcin

Thanks for the comment ! Just hoping that I am not creating food for job interviews questions with this post

By: Marcin Rybacki

Marcin Rybacki — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:22:20 +0000

Very nice article, I learned a few things from it…. I especially liked the comparison with those two examples

It is good to know such snags or at least to be aware of it… so in case they crop up, the bug wouldn’t make your jaw hanging….

But the other thing is that after a few years of working as a developer I have never had had such issues to trace… so my conclusion is that these kind of snags may most likely appear… on a job interview than on in real life

By: Luke R

Luke R — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:22:35 +0000

Great article, thanks. Interesting reading

By: Mike Borozdin

Mike Borozdin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:20:59 +0000

Hi Martijn,

Really well explained!