RE: fxcop

It really shouldn't be optimized out.

[ if (val == "") ] doesn't throw a NullReferenceException if val is null
whereas [ if (val.Length == 0) ] will.

IMO, the appropriate optimisation would be to replace "" with String.Empty.

Regards,

^Tum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:12 a.m.
> To: PNET-D
> Subject: [DotGNU]fxcop
> 
> Hello,
> 
> do you know FxCop?
> 
> FxCop ist a kind of lint that analyzes assemblies for coding and
> performance
> problems.
> 
> One of the fixed ideas (validation rules) of fxcop reads (this is not a
> citation):
> Do not test for empty string comparing it to empty string literal:
> if (val == "")
> 	...
> use its length instead:
> if (val.Length == 0)
> 	...
> because comparing strings (empty literal will be converted to an string
> instance before comparison) is much more expensive than comaring the
> string
> length.
> 
> I have tested it with pnet and indeed pnet runs *val.Length == 0* two
> times
> faster than *val == ""*.
> I have not tested other runtimes because it is not always allowed :-(.
> But if FxCop says so it must be true for them too.
> 
> My question is if pnet could do it better?
> Especially this trivial kind of optimization could be done directly in
> parser.
> It would have no impact on anything.
> 
> Regards
> --
> Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann
> E-mail: [email protected]
> 
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