CodeDom Tip: Cache Reusable Objects

Because CodeDom is so verbose and uses a massive grid of objects to represent code structures, it also has many small reusable objects, such as CodeTypeReference objects. Many people overlook this fact because there are so many object being created anyway, but sometimes a certain object will be used over and over. Since both the creation of these objects takes time and they also take up memory as unnecessary copies, consider creating a cache….

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