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John Linn - 20 Jun 2004 01:54 GMT

If I create a valuetype with ten string members. Are the ten string instances created in the heap or stack?

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Mattias Sj?gren - 20 Jun 2004 02:30 GMT

John,

Strings, being reference types, are always heap allocated. From where
you reference those strings doesn't matter.

Mattias

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John Linn - 20 Jun 2004 03:03 GMT

Thank you Mattias, that's what I suspected. So any garbage collection savings I might gain in my example would be the ValueType instance itself?

JL

"Mattias Sjögren" wrote:

> John,
>
> Strings, being reference types, are always heap allocated. From where
> you reference those strings doesn't matter.
>
> Mattias

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 21 Jun 2004 08:33 GMT

> Thank you Mattias, that's what I suspected. So any garbage collection
> savings I might gain in my example would be the ValueType instance
> itself?

Yes. And that would only be on the stack if it were a local variable.

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