Lambdas in C# do not have types, until they are used in a context that casts them to a delegate or Expression type. That’s why you cannot do the following: var x = () => “some lambda”; You might enjoy Eric Lippert’s Series on Lambda Expressions vs Anonymous Methods Lambda vs Anon – Part One … Read more
Since when you instantiate you get a class, that function is like an ordinary member function. It’s defined in that class, so the function is automatically inline. But it does not really matter here that much. You can define function templates or members of class templates multiple times in a program anyway – you don’t … Read more
A couple of the other answers have suggested that only final methods can be inlined – this is not true, as HotSpot is smart enough to be able to inline non-final methods so long as they haven’t been overridden yet. When a class is loaded which overrides the method, it can undo its optimisation. Obviously … Read more