Do NOT Use auto property
So I was writing this class and I was frustrated with the time it took to complete an operation compared to another class that I wanted to replace. Anyway, I am using Visual Studio 2017 and I get this very nice grayed out font on one of my fields and a nice suggestion complete with an automatic fix for it: "Use auto property". Why should I? Because I have a Count property that wraps a _count field and simply using the property is clearer and with less lines of code. It makes sense, right?
However, let's remember the context here: I was going for performance. So when I did ten million operations with Count++ it took 11 seconds, but when I did ten million operations with _count++ it took only 9 seconds. That's a staggering 20% increase in used resources for wrapping one field into a property.
However, let's remember the context here: I was going for performance. So when I did ten million operations with Count++ it took 11 seconds, but when I did ten million operations with _count++ it took only 9 seconds. That's a staggering 20% increase in used resources for wrapping one field into a property.
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