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Does the .NET CLR runtime know how to optimize/inline simple property getters at runtime? For example:
property int Length { get; set; }
Will this be executing the “Length__get” function (building a stack for it, jumping to execute the code, etc) once it is JIT’d at runtime? Or is the jitter smart, and knows that this can just be rewritten as class field access?
Yes, the CLR will inline that in “normal” cases. There are some situations in which inlining doesn’t take place, however – including anything derived from
MarshalByRefObject(because it could be a runtime proxy).The rules for what gets inlined depend on the exact CLR you’re using – x64 vs x86, version etc. Trivial properties are about as likely to be inlined as you’ll get though 🙂
(For some reason I’ve seen a trivial property be slower than a field access for doubles in the past… there may be some restrictions around values larger than the native word size.)