This is my first post. I hope that it doesn’t suck. As of .NET 2.0, Microsoft introduced the concept of generics. Generics is a concept that allow you to “template” methods and types such as classes and interfaces in a (generally) type-safe way. Upon compilation, generic type metadata is stored in IL, and JIT’d as you reference the generic method or class with an actual type at runtime. Value types each get their own “copy” of the JIT’d generic code, whereas reference types shar...
