I am just curious background of some classes and methods in .NET so i just wonder how ReferenceEquals method can understand 2 references belongs to same object or not?
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I am just curious background of some classes and methods in .NET so i just wonder how ReferenceEquals method can understand 2 references belongs to same object or not?
Because ‘the same object’ means ‘same place in memory’ and the operation can simply check the ‘address’ value of a reference.
Not that you can easily get at that value, but then you never need to.