.NET object activation

[MarkPflug]

Hi Joel.
I was reading through the .NET 6 performance blog that Stephen Toub published recently, and came across a section that reminded me of your object activation blog post. Apparently .NET 6 improves the performance of new T() for generic type activation. The relevant text is under the reflection section, search for "Activator.CreateInstance" to find the relevant paragraph. I thought it might be interesting to compare whether your cached-emit-activator approach is still a performance win in .NET 6, or if the simpler new T() approach is now on-par.

[joelverhagen]

Thanks for the heads up. I think I'll just update the top of the blog post with a note linking to Toub's blog post. I'm too lazy to rerun the results and update the whole post.

[MarkPflug]

No worries. Just thought you might be interested, since you'd clearly spent some time researching this previously. Always nice when the idiomatic approach is also the fastest.