As with almost any performance work, your mileage may vary (in particular the 64-bit JIT may work differently) and you almost certainly shouldn't care. Relatively few people write production code which is worth micro-optimizing. Please don't take this post as an invitation to make code more complicated for the sake of irrelevant and possibly mythical performance changes. It took me a surprisingly long time to find the problem described in the previous blog post, and almost no time at all to fix it. I unde[...]