Urs Enzler wrote:
Properties are inlined (if I'm not mistaken)
The JIT may choose to inline any method that's short enough. If a property setter or getter method is particularly long, it probably won't be inlined - the fact that it's a property is irrelevant. The CLR doesn't really 'understand' properties or events - the compiler is responsible for compiling a call to the correct underlying functions. In C# they're always called set_Property, get_Property and add_Event, remove_Event respectively (for a property called Property and an event named Event). The metadata links them into a single property or event. An standard event written in C# also has a field of the appropriate delegate type which is invisible to the user. It's possible to write an event which has custom add and remove methods; Windows Forms does this, making use of a list so that for example Control (which has 69 events in .NET 2.0) does not need to have 69 delegate fields unnecessarily bloating the memory footprint of each object. The feature is so useful that the implementation mostly lives in System.ComponentModel.Component's Events property.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
