What is boxing and unboxing?
Experience Level: Junior
Tags: .NETC#Performance
Answer
Explanation
- Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type object or to any interface type implemented by this value type. When the CLR boxes a value type, it wraps the value inside a System.Object and stores it on the managed heap.
- Unboxing extracts the value type from the object.
- Boxing is implicit
- Unboxing is explicit.
Performance
In relation to simple assignments, boxing and unboxing are computationally expensive processes.
- When a value type is boxed, a new object must be allocated and constructed.
- To a lesser degree, the cast required for unboxing is also expensive computationally.
Follow up questions
- How does boxing and unboxing impact performance?
- How to avoid the performance hit of boxing/unboxing?
- What is the difference between stack and heap?
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