.net miner

Most of the people know that switch works like if-else blocks. The only difference between the switch and if-else is its being for the many conditional states, and also writing switch is more simple than if-else block. This knowledge is really a big   mistake  because switch has a different algorithm and working-procedure comparing to if-else block. To demonstrate this, I wrote a simple example which indicates the performance differences between switch and if-else in many different situations.

Today I wrote a simple application, which shows what the difference is between initializing a static field in the explicit static constructor and doing the same during the declaration time (inline). I know that even when we initialize our static fields inline, the compiler will add an implicit static constructor to that class and initialize static values in that method. But this example showed me that there is really a long time difference between initializing static fields inline and in explicit static constructor. Here are a screenshot from the example – in this example BeforeFieldInit means that the static fields are initialized inline and NotBeforeFieldInit means that static fields are initialized in the explicit static constructor: