Authoritative info about strings in C#?

[MC]

Where (apart from making up a lot of examples and disassembling them myself) can I get authoritative information about how strings are handled in Microsoft C#? That is, when they are interned and when they're not, what they look like in memory, how related types such as StringBuilder are implemented, and so forth.

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Re: Authoritative info about strings in C#?

Dear MC,

i am not sure if you are aware of the fact, that you
can get the source code of the .NET Runtime and
there are also free sources for e.g. Mono Project,
where you can see, how these things are made up
under the hood,...

See here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Regards

Kerem

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Where (apart from making up a lot of examples and disassembling them
myself) can I get authoritative information about how strings are handled
in Microsoft C#? That is, when they are interned and when they're not,
what they look like in memory, how related types such as StringBuilder are
implemented, and so forth.
>

[Marc Gravell]

Re: Authoritative info about strings in C#?

What they look look in memory? Possibly ECMA335 would give some hints
(I haven't checked).
When they are interned? Compiled literals, or when you ask it ;-p
StringBuilder is an implementation detail, but as Kerem indicates, the
source would tell you.

Marc

[Pavel Minaev]

Re: Authoritative info about strings in C#?

On Sep 27, 5:55 pm, "MC" <for.address.l. ..@www.ai.uga.e du.slash.mc>
wrote:

Where (apart from making up a lot of examples and disassembling them myself) can I get authoritative information about how strings are handled in Microsoft C#?  That is, when they are interned and when they're not, what they look like in memory, how related types such as StringBuilder are implemented, and so forth.

Here's an article you might find interesting:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/strings.aspx