Justin Johansson wrote:
- that the .sizeof a delegate is 8 bytes (on a 32-bit machine).AFAIK, stack pushes are still more expensive than a pointer dereference in contemporary CPU architectures. Justin
Not so. On 286 and earlier, stack pushes were more expensive. They're the same on 386 and later (including Core2, K7,K8,K10), but you have a chance of a cache miss with a pointer deref. In my C++ experience I got a 25% speedup of my entire app by replacing heap pointers with stack delegates!
